Lois McMaster Quotes
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
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Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free
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What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.
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We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
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Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.
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The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
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But this has to be resolved intelligently and by talking to the rest of the players, who helped Santos get to this position.
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For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
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I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
