Quentin L. Cook Quotes
This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Good design should be honest.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
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This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
