Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown -
I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
Dakota Fanning -
I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
Taylor Lautner -
I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
Dana Carvey -
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Irena Sendler -
Robert F. Kennedy used to say, 'Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not?'; that outlook has become a far too common and destructive approach to interpreting the law
Antonin Scalia
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This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?
Cormac McCarthy -
'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'
Charles Dickens -
Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
Chevy Chase -
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.
Alice Morse Earle -
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
Edward Thorndike -
Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.
Blase J. Cupich
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I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
Amy Adams -
We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.
Adrian Grenier -
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
Daniel Kahneman -
'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.
John Lasseter -
'Reformation theology' … pretends to prefer to Pharasaic ostentation a modest invisibility, which in practice means conformity to the world. When that happens, the hallmark of the Church becomes justitia civilis instead of extraordinary visibility. The very failure of the light to shine becomes the touchstone of our Christianity.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
Quentin Bryce -
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
Olympia Dukakis -
I've never been a true fan of the short story and have only published a single example of my own.
Jim Harrison -
Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.
Joanne Rowling -
Faith is the antidote for fear.
Russell M. Nelson