Quotes of: Benjamin-franklin Keyword

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Jim Harrison

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

Richard M. Daley

Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.

The Graduate

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

Naomi Wolf

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Aneurin Bevan

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Tim Kaine

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Thomas Ligotti

Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.

Judith McNaught

Alex: Benjamin, have you ever been severely beaten about the face and neck?

An American Werewolf in London

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

Andrew Taylor Still

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

Patch Adams

If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.

Being Enough

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

James Roosevelt

Music may be his passion -- but this, right here, was his dream.

Accidentally Married on Purpose

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Pearl Harbor

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Passion and Purity

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

Dick Thornburgh

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

Elliott Abrams

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

Robert Mueller