Ben Stein Famous Quotes
"Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.
"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
"There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...."
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein Quotations
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Richard Milhous Nixon
No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.
Muriel Spark
"To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form."
Hermann Hesse
"Never, Never, Never Say NEVER"
Gary Thadani
Civilization is a transient sickness.
Robinson Jeffers
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sir Harold George Nicolson
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Arab Proverb
"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice."
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino