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

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• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Government
  • Movies

• My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Wonder
  • Inspiration
  • Beatles

• That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Particular

• I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Lost

• Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Writing
  • Leaving

• We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Military
  • Enforcement

• I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Business
  • Claudette Colbert

• Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Actions

• To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Real
  • Democracy

• I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Harsh

• Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Honor
  • Demands
  • Sage

• Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Medicine
  • Collection
  • Prescriptions

• When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Bad

• I remember taking great pride in making Brad Pitt laugh. I always had a soft spot for him. He's such a sweet, sweet man.

  

  Eddie Jemison
  • Pride
  • Sweet
  • Laugh

• I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Thinking
  • School
  • War

• I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Thinking
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  • Help

• When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Cutting

• Ask the missionaries, they can help you

  

  Russell M. Nelson
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