David A. Bednar Quotes
The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.
Quotes to Explore
-
I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
-
But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
-
I was a tomboy.
-
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
-
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
-
I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
-
I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
-
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
-
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
-
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
-
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
-
But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
-
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
-
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
-
If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.
-
When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
-
I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.
-
Before there was anything, there was Lochan.
-
The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.
