Heber J. Grant Quotes

Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

Heber J. Grant

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• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Europe
  • Preserve

• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Lazy
  • Shoot

• I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Song
  • Own

• I just lost interest in performing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Lost
  • Interest
  • Just

• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Amazing

• I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Old

• The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lost

• It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Present
  • Intelligent
  • Stock

• You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Serious

• My parents are pretty open-minded.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Grandson

• In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • People
  • May
  • Road

• The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Country
  • Money
  • Truth

• I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Justice

• My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Great
  • Job

• To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

  

  W. A. Mathieu
  • Body
  • Dangerous
  • Vulnerable

• Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • Work
  • God
  • Opinions