Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes

A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

  

  Harland Williams
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• My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

  

  Lara Logan
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• Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

  

  Daisy Donovan
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• I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Way
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• I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Up
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• Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another’s needs creates empathy.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Respect
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• Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Country
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• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  

  Alain de Botton
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• I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

  

  Jenny Han
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• I wanted to be a stuntman. I've done stunts since I was 11, and wanted to be able to do them whatever kind of work I ended up in. I've had a horse roll on me, but luckily, everything stayed intact.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
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• I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
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• Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Life
  • Up
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• I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

  

  Jane Horrocks
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• Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

  

  John Ruskin
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• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Family
  • Love
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• I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Fun

• I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer, a female director - and create something. Creatively, it's a different dimension. Why wouldn't people want that?

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • People
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• A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Spiritual