M. Russell Ballard Quotes

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

M. Russell Ballard

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• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Early

• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Life
  • My Life
  • New

• Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Forget

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Couple

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

  

  Jack Black
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Nature
  • New Life

• I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Better

• I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Awful
  • Pregnant
  • Romanticized

• Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Positive
  • Philosophy
  • Try

• Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

  

  Ellen Pompeo
  • People

• I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

  

  John Grisham
  • Up
  • Family
  • Fun

• We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Shape