Brigham Young Quotes

I do not want Mormonism to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

Brigham Young

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• Mormonism
• Church Of England
• Roman Catholic Church

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• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

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• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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• My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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• Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
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• Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
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  • Eyes
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• Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Time
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• I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak
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  • Jealous

• Songwriting is something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Voice
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• God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.

  

  Balian of Ibelin
  • God
  • Worry
  • Needs

• You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

  

  Cannonball Adderley
  • Way
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• From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Business
  • Service
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• Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Believe
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• We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Love
  • Body

• I do not want Mormonism to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Sins
  • Mormonism
  • Church Of England