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

Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!

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• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Ideas
  • Matter
  • Rather

• At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Practice

• I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

  

  Jack Herer
  • High
  • Girl
  • Me

• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • School
  • High
  • Death

• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Small
  • Church

• After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Comedy

• She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • She
  • Girl

• In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• O woman shapely as a swan.

  

  Padraic Colum

• When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Remember
  • Dead

• Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Free
  • Blessed
  • Lord

• I try to avoid political ties.

  

  Rick Santelli
  • Try
  • Avoid
  • Ties

• "I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Quran and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the o­ne religion of the future.'"

  

  William Montgomery Watt
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Vision

• Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Blessing
  • Loss
  • Divine