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

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

Russell M. Nelson

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• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Rock

• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Exercise
  • Difficult

• There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Short
  • Twitter

• I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Food

• Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Free
  • Failure

• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear

• Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Time
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Money
  • Friends

• A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Running

• There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Live
  • Remember

• In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Art
  • History
  • Fun

• I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Life
  • Help
  • Alone

• The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. But I didn't realise how much it would affect me mentally. All that pressure. I was only 19; I still didn't know everything about taekwondo, I wasn't experienced. I just did amazing on that day and won.

  

  Jade Jones
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Amazing

• Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Myself

• At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

  

  Dolley Madison
  • House

• They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • World
  • Political
  • Failing