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

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.

Russell M. Nelson

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• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Judgment
  • Errors
  • Failures

• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Why
  • Want
  • Day

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Children
  • Career
  • Small

• I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Think
  • Nobody
  • Budget

• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Learning
  • Dance

• The nearest way to God Leads through love's open door; The path of knowledge is Too slow for evermore

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Path

• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, 'I'm a Liar,' right there on the dust jacket.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Liar

• I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Childhood

• What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Trying

• If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

  

  Pete du Pont

• However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • Funny
  • Boy

• When members of this House use inflammatory language, use offensive language, it does not help the process. It is beneath the dignity of this body and this country.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • Country
  • Help
  • House

• To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

  

  David Hockney
  • World
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.

  

  John Battelle
  • World
  • Search
  • Lit

• Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• With women the heart argues, not the mind.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heart
  • Child
  • Room

• The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Heart
  • Sincere
  • Revelations