Abou Ben Adhem Quotes

Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider the development of chemistry as a whole, Ostwald's name like Abou ben Adhem's leads all the rest ... Ostwald was absolutely the right man in the right place. He was loved and followed by more people than any chemist of our time. ~ Wilder Dwight Bancroft

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us. ~ David Ben-Gurion

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. ~ Ben Hecht

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. ~ Ben Marcus

We are irrational animals trained to be rational. ~ Ben Tolosa

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place. ~ Ben E. King

insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about ~ Ben Aaronovitch

Either Conquer Your Despair Or Your Despair Will Conquer You! ~ Timothy Pina

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now. ~ Ben Stein

If you don't like something ...
Don't accept it but leave it alone!
Don't ever hurt it!
There's never a reason to ABUSE
anything!
not even a tree! ~ Timothy Pina

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day. ~ Ben Affleck

Transparency and detail are everything in science. ~ Ben Goldacre

If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat. ~ Ben Bernanke

Everything will usually get worse before it gets better, but when it does get better ... remember all who put you down and all who helped you up. Forgive but never forget. Let Karma take care of all the rest. ~ Timothy Pina

And I guess that was right, but it also seemed to me like people who said Ben was special and had no worries were as wrong as the people long ago, but in a different way.
Because that's crappy. What if this life was all Ben got? People said he was sweet and special - and he was - but he was also sad and angry. More than most people. He cried. His own body seemed to feel weird to him sometimes - he would jump and move like he wanted to be free of his skin. I could see him looking at us like Get me out of here and we were never sure where to take him. You can't take someone away from their own body. And that seemed unfair. Would God really do that to someone so other people could feel like they were learning important lessons in the few minutes they spent with him? ~ Ally Condie

Fone Bone: HOLD IT! Thorn thinks Gran'ma Ben can help us get back to Boneville!
Phoney Bone: IT'S NOT WORTH IT! LET GO OF ME!
Fone Bone: Would you wait a minute?!! We can explain everything!
Phoney Bone: HELP! HELP! They've destroyed my cousin's brain!! OH MY GOSH! THey've already milked you haven't they?!! ~ Jeff Smith

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised. ~ Ben Jonson

We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends. ~ Ben Tolosa

I've been shot at, hacked at, pummelled with catapult-stones, doused in flaming oil, tipped into drowning-pits, even covered by a landslide. I've seen every kind of violence humans know how to wreak, and I have learnt that you are creatures beyond cruel, beyond vengeful, beyond dishonest. So, yes, Knight. You are all villains in my mind. ~ Ben Galley

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility. ~ Ben Horowitz

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. ~ Ben Crenshaw

Fallon," he whispers, moving his lips slowly across mine. "Thank you for this beautiful gift." As soon as his words brush over my mouth, he covers me in a deep kiss. My whole body tenses from the burst of pain that ripples through me as he pushes inside of me, but the perfection of the way we fit together makes the pain a mere inconvenience. It's beautiful. He's beautiful. And somehow, with the way he's looking down at me, I even believe I'm beautiful. He presses his mouth against my ear and whispers, "No combination of written words could ever do this moment justice. ~ Colleen Hoover

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one. ~ Ben Clymer

Can we really put Ben (hereby representing all men) on such a pedestal? Having tamed those beasts set aside for him, is it not like Ben to seek out that which has historically (regardless of how brief a history) been set aside for women? Woolf criticizes the masculine in her work with the repetition of the phrases uttered by that inconsiderate individual who makes the claim that women cannot paint or write. Is Ben not committing the same crime as that unfortunate character?
In stating "[b]etter like this, bitch," Ben employs a word that I would consider to be demasculinizing, rather than feminine. In using the word bitch, he seizes this scholarly investigation and, if you will, pisses on it, claiming it as his own. His statement is an outright challenge. This is a book I stole from women, and I urinated on it. You'd better appreciate my conquest or I will also urinate on you. ~ Caris O'Malley

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have. ~ Ben Barnes

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back. ~ Ben Abix

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want. ~ Ben Stein

You're no Mother, but after you arrived, we began to heal. We all felt it. Father speaks to us through you, and we, likewise, through you to him. Strange, but somehow you've returned the circulation to a dead household You arrived just in time With you here, I don't feel so bad about leaving. ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are. ~ Ben Daniels

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor. ~ Eli Roth

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. ~ Ben Okri

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen. ~ Ben Affleck

The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing. ~ Ben Bernanke

Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second? ~ Ben Monopoli

No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right? ~ Jonathan Harnisch

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that. ~ Ben Nicholson

I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library! ~ Ben Affleck

The bathroom door opened and Griff emerged in a cloud of steam, the grand entrance of every B-movie alien I'd ever seen. Maybe this wasn't Griff at all but some interstellar prankster setting me up. Forget about abductions, anal probes and secret alien cookbooks - the real fun was in poking at the Earthlings' old heartaches. ~ Ben Monopoli

After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is. ~ Ben Shapiro

No one ever died with too much money. ~ Ben Feldman

If you're only doing it for the money, it's probably not worth doing to begin with. ~ Ben McLeish

Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings? ~ Ben Lerner