A.J. Benson Quotes

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er.

I've always been a big fan of books.

As a fighter, you've got to do what you've got to do to get the big fights.

A friend is someone I complain to about my other friends.

If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.

Willem Dafoe is a shithead.

Any comedic entertainment is better when you get high.

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.

We need missionaries to match our message.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

Now we not only need to say more about the Book of Mormon, but we need to do more with it.

Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

There is only one point of view, that is your point of view. You are making a mistake if you see the point of view of people. There is only one and that is your livelihood.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

I think that the only way that you're going to succeed anywhere is to fail, as crazy as that sounds. It's the only way. You have to fail your way up.

I have been doing voice work my entire life, and I adore it. It is really rewarding stuff.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

[Ryan Reynolds] has had stabs at it like Just Friends. He's really fun in that.

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

This nation was established by the God of heaven as a citadel of liberty. A Constitution guaranteeing those liberties was designed under the superintending influence of heaven.