David A. Bednar Quotes

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Thing

• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Positive

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • World
  • Experience
  • Reality

• I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Problem
  • Games
  • Got

• There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Game
  • Standards
  • Promises

• I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Celebrity
  • Celebrities

• I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Understand
  • Lawyer
  • Educated

• 'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Wishes

• Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Criticize

• Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you'll feel a new lightness and more joy.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Free

• I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Science
  • Always
  • Spiritual

• I would not want to play a girl who masquerades as a boy for the rest of my life.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Rest

• I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

  

  Cheryl Ladd
  • World
  • Heart
  • Funny

• A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Rest
  • Spiritual
  • Effort