Ben Ringel Quotes

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. ~ Abraham Lincoln

There's no jealousy in the grave. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Slow and steady wins the race. ~ Aesop

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. ~ Henry Ford

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. ~ Plutarch

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out ... ~ Michel De Montaigne

If I'd been afraid," she said, "I never would have started out in the first place."--Grandma Emma Gatewood ~ Ben Montgomery

In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it. ~ Ben Roethlisberger

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature. ~ Ben Edwards

Like all truly selfish people, Kliemann believed the minutiae of his life must be fascinating to all. ~ Ben Macintyre

Peace is not just a prayer. ~ Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality. ~ Ben Shahn

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event. ~ Ron Ben-Israel

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met. ~ Ben Brantley

a company needs lots of smart, super-engaged employees who can identify its particular weaknesses and help it improve them. ~ Ben Horowitz

It's an attempted murder. It's a suicide, but you're attempting to make it seem like a murder. ~ Ben H. Winters

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time. ~ Ben E. King

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home. ~ Ben Feldman

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process. ~ Ben Horowitz

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. ~ Ben Lerner

Finished our conversation yet." "We haven't?" Ben asked, lowering to the bench ~ Melissa Cutler

We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit. ~ Martin Henderson

You never monkey with the truth. ~ Ben Bradlee

Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt. ~ Ben Greenhalgh

That is the delusion of which I speak! You wish the joys of true love upon every milkmaid and stable boy in your land, and yet you consign yourself and another to lives of pure misery that you might possess a well-proportioned ballroom. ~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ~ Ben Shahn

Will and I are thinking about writing a movie," Ben said. "It's called Theater Closed for Repairs. ~ Lisa Goldstein

I just rediscovered my guitar. ~ Ben Gibbard

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity. ~ Ben Parr

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. ~ Ben Elton

It's far more common for leftists to routinely pick up weapons and try to kill those with whom they disagree than it is for those on the other side of the ideological spectrum. ~ Ben Shapiro

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves. ~ Ben Affleck

The apprehension of ... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of ... prolonged tuition. ~ Ben Shahn

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value. ~ Ben Greenman

You think that just because you're in a politician's house, you're seeing the real person? Pretty naive, Ben. ~ Allen Zadoff

Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature. ~ Ben Jonson

The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don't want to be either it's best to stay back. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. ~ Ben Stiller

I desecrated my own house?" Chance snorted in disbelief. "Then swam out to Fort Sumter and played paint-by-numbers on the walls, all to make Benjamin Blue like me? Don't flatter yourself, kid."
Ben's eyes cut like diamonds. "You act like such a big shot. But you don't fool me. Do you have any friends, Chance? Is there a single person who cares where you are right now?"
"Ben!" I blurted, horrified. "That's not - "
"You're one to talk." Chance stepped closer to Ben and matched him glare for glare. "I've never betrayed my friends. Not like you, eh, Benjamin?"
Ben's whole body went still. "What did you say?"
"Guys, guys!" Hi half rose, palms up. "There's no need for anyone to get upset. I've got Go-Gurt in the mini-fridge. I know when I get hungry, my manners can - "
"Shut up, Hi." Ben and Chance, in unison. ~ Kathy Reichs

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ~ Ben Kingsley

A coward purposely performs poorly to blame others for their own failures. ~ Ben Tolosa

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. ~ Ben Jonson

I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain. ~ Ben Okri

If it was just a fling, brief and minimally emotional, then she could have the amazing sex she was sure Ben would deliver - and that she deserved, dammit - but she didn't have to worry that he would eventually let her down. She would know going in not to expect anything more. Could she have an affair and not want more? ~ Erin Nicholas

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. ~ Ben Affleck

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn't make them less good. But it also doesn't make the wrong less wrong. ~ Ovadya Ben Malka

Because if you don't accept excuses, pretty soon people stop giving them, and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success. ~ Ben Carson

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing. ~ Ben Whishaw

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board. ~ Ben Quayle

Aunt Jettie: "yes, i'm wandering the earth seeking revenge on ben & jerry for giving me the fat a$$ and coronary & I give out love advice to the tragically lonely."
jane: "Is that an ironic eternal punishment for the lady who died an eighty-one year old spinster."
jettie: "single by choice you twirp."
jane: "banshee."
jettie: "bloodsucker. ~ Molly Harper

He looks up at the sound of the gravel crunch on the driveway, and I catch a flash of impression, a reclusive animal surprised in his lair by the arrival of the hunters. ~ Ben H. Winters

(A)ny working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point - the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations. ~ Ben Horowitz