Brigham Young Quotes

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Brigham Young

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• You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Way
  • Where

• It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Great
  • She
  • True

• Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Effort
  • Needs
  • Results

• The body is the garden of the soul.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Garden

• We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Start
  • Choosing
  • Our Lives

• I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Afraid

• It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran, and if we do air strikes, becoming de facto air force for them.

  

  Tulsi Gabbard
  • Country
  • Action
  • Government

• I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

  

  Georgia May Jagger
  • Fact
  • Teeth
  • Gap

• Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Chess
  • Occupation
  • Recreation

• The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Master
  • Recreation

• The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Miseries
  • Diversion
  • Consoles

• I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

  

  Vangelis Aphrodite's Child
  • Work
  • Chaos
  • Function

• The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Human
  • Recreation
  • Bent

• My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Guy
  • Wife

• I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Men
  • Feeling

• If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Begin

• We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

  

  Eva Burrows
  • Prove
  • Feminism
  • Leads

• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Recreation
  • Diversion
  • Pursuits of life