M. Russell Ballard Quotes
We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

Quotes to Explore
-
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
-
I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
-
In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
-
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
-
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
-
There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
-
Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better - not return us to the days when insurance companies alone decided who to cover for what benefits at what price. Otherwise, they should move beyond the repeal fights of the past, accept Obamacare as the law of the land, and work with us to make real improvements.
-
My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.
-
I didn't think it would be this big. It must have been a slow news day.
-
It may be a political opportunity that won't pass our way again in our political lifetimes.
-
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
-
The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.
-
Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
-
When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.
-
The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.
-
Classroom teachers can play an active role in instructing children about appropriate conduct online, even where there is no school policy on the issue. By promoting public discussion about their lives on the Internet, teachers and students can work together to share advice and develop 'rules to type by' or similar Internet-minded guidance.
-
The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.
-
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
-
I'm saying those things here and now out of a belief in the State of Israel's immense power and the immeasurable courage of its soldiers, military leaders, and security forces to hit any enemy and defeat any terrorist. Out of this sense of strength we must act with all our power in order to create hope for a different life for our young generation and that of our Palestinian neighbors.
-
One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.
-
We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.