Brigham Young Quotes

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

Brigham Young

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• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Dance

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Teachers

• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Know
  • Ignorance

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Holiness
  • Negotiate

• The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country. You have 200 countries who came together. It's an international agreement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Long
  • Political

• Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Real
  • Growth
  • Imports

• We clarified that without a clear abandonment of the path of terror, a recognition of Israel's right to exist in security and peace ... Israel won't have any contact with the Palestinians.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Peace
  • Path
  • Security

• A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Real
  • Character
  • Truth

• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Mind
  • Experience

• In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Business
  • Job
  • Age

• Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Dream
  • Courage
  • Possible

• True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Humanity
  • Compassion

• In Holland, Moroccans automatically also have the Moroccan nationality even if they're born in the Netherlands, because the Moroccan law says that if one of the parents is Moroccan the children wherever they are born in the world are Moroccan as well.The Moroccan youth in the Netherlands between the age of 14 and 23, two-thirds of them have been arrested by the police at least once in their life.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • World
  • Children
  • Age

• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Death
  • Certain
  • Nurse

• All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Enemies
  • Onward
  • Upward