David A. Bednar Quotes
Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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He that thinks diversion may not lie in hard and painful labour, forgets the early rising, hard riding, heat, cold and hunger of huntsmen, which is yet known to be the constant recreation of men of the greatest condition.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better.
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Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
