Brigham Young Quotes

God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist...

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Strong
  • Wife
  • Leaving

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Laughter
  • Applause

• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Way
  • Doing

• One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Words
  • Act

• In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Why
  • Enemy

• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Fate

• To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death
  • Die
  • Stupid

• Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• This casket India's glowing gems unlocks And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.

  

  Alexander Pope

• «You can not be an absurd optimist, but you can not have a sad or cramped approach because at the moment so is out of reality.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Reality
  • Sad

• A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. … Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Good
  • May
  • Nature

• I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that's it. I'm not very glued to material stuff.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Family
  • Wife
  • Memories

• The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Commitment

• And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • God
  • Remember
  • Mercy

• 'Don’t worry,' he told her.'Me?' she said. 'I never worry. It’s all going to end badly whether I worry or not.'

  

  Clive Barker
  • She
  • Worry

• God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist...

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Law
  • Economy