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

Faith is the antidote for fear.

Russell M. Nelson

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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
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• 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
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Go

• 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
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Goals
  • Give
  • Him

• 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
  • People
  • Family
  • Know

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Live
  • Society
  • Sacred

• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Great
  • Things
  • Friendship

• 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
  • Men
  • Why
  • Dream

• This is a terrible place to die in.Where’s a good one?

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Good
  • Die

• '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
  • Heart
  • She
  • Proud

• Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Done

• Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People

• 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
  • Lost

• Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Long
  • History
  • Spiritual

• Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Spiritual
  • Values
  • Christianity

• During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Spiritual
  • Prayer
  • Period

• During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

  

  Ching Hai
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Spiritual

• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Too Much

• Faith is the antidote for fear.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Spiritual
  • Antidote