Dallin H. Oaks Quotes

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

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• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Product
  • Agree
  • Software

• So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Me
  • Project

• Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • World
  • Future
  • Risk

• I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Time

• The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Mind

• When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

  

  Derrick Rose

• When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Technology
  • Photography

• I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

  

  Amos Lee
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • People

• Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Up

• PWR BTTM fans dress up better than we do.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • Up

• There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

  

  Corey Hart
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Life
  • God
  • Inspiration

• The folks who get their rent cheap, at the expense of other taxpayers, acquire the notion that society is obligated to take care of them-good Freudianism and that these rooms are a down payment on that obligation.

  

  Frank Chodorov
  • Good
  • Society

• Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.

  

  Charles Fort
  • World
  • May
  • Magic

• It's not our job to be liked teachers. Its our job to help them be smart students. Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Job
  • Students
  • Teachers

• The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

  

  Lucretia Mott
  • Jesus

• The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from the brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Fall
  • Jesus
  • Brother

• There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Jesus
  • Poverty

• There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Work
  • Attitude
  • Integrity

• The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

  

  Dallin H. Oaks
  • Jesus
  • Gospel
  • Brightest