Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
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You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.
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In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.
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The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.
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Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.
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I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.
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The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
