Franklin Bean Quotes

It's all about the smiles! ~ Emmy Swain

He squinted at us. "You really believe there might be zombies in Franklin Village?"
"Maybe," I said. "We just thought we'd patrol at night and search for them."
"But that could be dangerous," Trevor said. He leaned toward us. His eyes darted from Alec to me. "That could be very dangerous."
A chill rolled down my back. He had suddenly changed. His voice deepened. And his words sounded like a warning.
Or a threat. ~ R.L. Stine

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed. ~ Michelle Franklin

the problem is not lack of learning. Rather, he believes, when we are undergraduates, we learn all too well: we learn to ape the bureaucratic, academic, clear-as-swamp-water prose of our professors. ~ Bryan Franklin

The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt ... None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word ... Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos ... ~ H.G.Wells

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!! ~ Benjamin Franklin

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. ~ Richard Trumka

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor. ~ Benjamin Franklin

To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace with a land we took by force and have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness in one another. And none of us can be really free until all of us are. ~ Robert Thurman

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s. ~ Thomas Sowell

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation. ~ Sean Bean

I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die. ~ Michelle Franklin

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine. ~ Benjamin Franklin

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you. ~ Aretha Franklin

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them. ~ Benjamin Franklin

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling. ~ John Heywood

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping ... ~ Benjamin Franklin

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. ~ Benjamin Franklin

This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way. ~ Franklin Graham

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Designed in a 'Pueblo Deco' style, which blends Mission with Art Deco influences, the DCA tower is a composite modeled after real Hollywood landmarks built in the 1920's; possible influences include the Hollywood Tower at 6200 Franklin Avenue, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard and the Chateau Marmont at 8221 Sunset Boulevard. ~ Leslie Le Mon

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar. ~ Franklin P. Adams

During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson. ~ Robert Dallek

I want you to know God, but not because you've made some sort of bargain or deal with Him. You must seek His face because you want to know the Lord and because you want the Lord to be part of your life through all times, not just bad times. ~ Darlene Franklin

In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda. ~ Franklin Graham

Failure is not an American habit. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing. ~ Jentezen Franklin

How plants grow: Quickly. Most plants grow fast and die young. People get seventy years, a bean plant gets four months, maybe five. Once the itty-bitty baby plant peeks out of the ground, it sprouts leaves, so it can absorb more sun. Then it sleeps, eats, and sunbathes until it's ready to flower - a teenage plant. This is a bad time to be a rose or a zinnia or a marigold, because people attack with scissors and cut off what's pretty. But plants are cool. If the rose is picked, the plant grows another one. It needs to bloom to produce more seeds. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude. ~ Michelle Franklin

One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It's speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and trust you give it, and how well you are able to recognize when it appears. Awareness and Creation are inseparable. ~ Franklin Gillette