James E. Faust Quotes

I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.

James E. Faust

• Action
• Car
• Boy
• Sunday

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• I don't miss acting at all.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Acting
  • Miss

• I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Character
  • Worry

• A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Fire

• Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

  

  Feist
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Lucky

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Cooking
  • Own
  • Rice

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Happy
  • Health

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Without
  • Consequences

• I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Kids
  • Action
  • Attention

• I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Development
  • Economic

• I love physicality. I love movement very much.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • I Love
  • Movement
  • Much

• You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Important
  • Support
  • Health

• The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Inspiration

• If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • You
  • Me
  • See

• One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Remember
  • Ethical

• I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Age

• At my audition, I had one of those anxiety visions where you do something totally crazy in your mind, just to torture yourself with the possibility, just to wonder what would happen if you actually did it.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • Crazy
  • Anxiety
  • Audition

• The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Light
  • Sometimes
  • Queen

• I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.

  

  Keith Carter
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

  

  Jet Li
  • People
  • Girl
  • Action

• I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Action
  • Car
  • Boy