Brigham Young Quotes

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

Brigham Young

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
  • Thought
  • Weird

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Model
  • Personality

• TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Art
  • Violence

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Land
  • Village
  • Ruthless

• I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Future
  • Want
  • Know

• Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Question
  • Group
  • Within

• It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Bad
  • Help
  • Script

• But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• We had a street gang that was very vivid - very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet - with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.

  

  Bono U2
  • City
  • Hand
  • Stupid

• It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Arrogance

• The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • People
  • Writing
  • Problem

• I lived in New York for five years; I've lived in Barcelona, Rome, and Paris at different times. When I was 18, I was dying to live in a city.

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Different
  • Live
  • City

• Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• 2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Great
  • History
  • Age

• Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Life
  • Father
  • Endowment