Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
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I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.
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Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.
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It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that 'The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.'
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Live the New Life 1:13. Men wore long robes and would tuck them into their belt, and thus “gird up their loins,” so they could move more freely and quickly. Although the image also occurs elsewhere in the *Old Testament, here Peter may specifically allude to the Passover (Ex 12:11): once God’s people had been redeemed by the blood of the lamb (1 Pet 1:19), they were to be ready to follow God forth until he had brought them safely into their inheritance (cf. 1:4), the Promised Land. Thus they were to be dressed and ready to flee. “Sobriety” in ancient usage meant not only literal abstinence from drink but also behaving as a nonintoxicated person should, hence with dignified self-control. 1:14
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Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
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The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.
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It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
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With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
