“My own views on all matters of public revenue and public expenditure are conditioned by an acute appreciation of whose is the sacrifice that produces public revenue and to whom accrues the benefit of public spending.” MatterMy OwnViewsSacrificeProduceBenefitsAppreciationSpendingRevenueExpenditures Author:John James Cowperthwaite
“I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.” NeedsLongArtStillsI CanNextCan DoMy OwnStepsEnvironmentBenefitsLong TimeAccomplishRelaxLong Time AgoNext Steps Author:Jack White
“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.” ShouldHas BeensMightWantedJoyTurnsJesusFeltDifficultMy OwnLordImagineEventsSorrowBenefitsTragedyContraryThis LifeShockUnexpectedGoing AwayProvidenceApostlesSetbackDepartureFathomBewildermentInscrutable Author:Patrick Madrid
“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.” IfsTryingWellsHelpingUseAbleNamesSpeakGivenMy OwnPleasureTalentDutyReaderBenefitsPrejudiceHumbleEndeavour Author:Anne Bronte
“I wish I could be someone that is more in the moment. There's a benefit to being who I am because I get things done, but I probably don't need to be in my own head all the time because it's intense in there.” NeedsDoneMomentsWishMy OwnBenefitsIntenseWho I AmThings Done Author:Steve Grand
“Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'” ThinkingNeedsI CanMy OwnOpinionBenefitsPsychologicalAnalysisIslands Author:Keith Olbermann
“Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating moral critiques of American excesses, and so on, and also a communal role, in terms of building community as the country moved westward to the role my own Catholic Church played in assimilating generations of immigrants.” YearsCountryTermCommunityChurchMy OwnMoralChristianityRolesClearGenerationsBuildingBenefitsCatholicMovedImmigrantsExcessSecularCatholic ChurchCritiqueAmerican LifePropheticBuilding Community Author:Ross Douthat
“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.” InspirationalFirstsHas BeensWould BeMy OwnBasketballBenefitsPressesCoachingSense Of HumorTeamworkConferencesPress ConferencesGood Sense Of Humor Author:Bobby Knight
“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.” IfsThinkingMenGivingCountryLastsLawMy OwnCuttingWindBenefitsDevilSeasonsDown AndSafetySakeBlowFlatsThickCoast Author:Robert Bolt
“If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.” IfsWayShouldMy OwnVirtueGoodnessBenefitsMy FriendsAccountsI Love HimI Love My Friends Author:Meister Eckhart
“I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.” PeopleIfsMindMy OwnBenefitsMotiveRepeats Book:The Dud Avocado Source: The Dud Avocado
“I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.” PeopleI CanUseRememberMy OwnDealsWiseImagineBenefitsObservingBeing WiseInconsistency Book:The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated) Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)