Brigham Young Quotes

The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.

Brigham Young

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• Trifling nature

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• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Challenges

• Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • People
  • Food
  • Consequences

• I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Different
  • Important
  • School

• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Bottles

• Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • Children
  • Ambitions

• You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • People
  • Life

• We showed ourselves to be good neighbors during the tragedy of four years ago, ... There was no act of looting at all. This time it is very important for good neighbors to be good neighbors.

  

  Frank Keating
  • Tragedy
  • Neighbors
  • Years Ago

• Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

  

  James Stewart
  • Eternity
  • Concerned
  • Believer

• If you challenge the constitution and if you challenge the borders of Iraq and the borders of the region, this is a public invitation to the countries in the region to violate Iraqi borders as well, which is a very dangerous escalation.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Challenge
  • Constitution
  • Iraq

• Les êtres humains avouent leurs pires faiblesses quand ils s'étonnent qu'un maître du monde ne soit pas sottement indolent, présomptueux, ou cruel.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Political
  • Stupid
  • Policy

• Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Love
  • Destiny

• The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Constitution
  • Alterations
  • Trifling nature