David Moody Quotes

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

David Moody

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• We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fear

• Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Good
  • Another
  • Lauryn

• Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Children
  • Love
  • Parents

• I think we realized what was at stake.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Understanding
  • Stake

• Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Giving
  • Understanding

• Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Why
  • Girls
  • Hyenas

• Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • Humility

• I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Irrelevant

• From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Together

• When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

  

  I. F. Stone

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Soul
  • Secret
  • Patience

• The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Feels
  • Firsts
  • Bothered

• Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

  

  David Moody
  • Feels
  • Ladders
  • Snakes