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

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

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• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Find
  • Hard

• Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Live
  • Together
  • Peace

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
  • Birth
  • Shalt

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Stories
  • Write
  • Teenagers

• Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Man

• His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • God
  • Man
  • Thought

• So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Different
  • Eyes

• A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • God
  • She

• Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Live
  • Age

• I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

  

  Ander Crenshaw
  • Live
  • Trying

• I live to feel myself in danger.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Live

• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Parents

• I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

  

  Jens Lekman

• I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Real
  • Proud

• The eventual goal is to marry all of my work together to make a high-speed, high-resolution, low-impact tool that can look deep inside biological systems.

  

  Eric Betzig
  • Work
  • Together
  • High

• There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer

• Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • America
  • Study

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge.

  

  Jerry McNerney
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Learning
  • Wall