Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Barbara W. Tuchman

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Bethany Mota

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

David Hewson

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

Chris Abani

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Rick Pitino

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

Ingmar Bergman

Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade.

Fadela Chaib

That would be the beginning of a human influenza epidemic but we are not there yet.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Carrie Brownstein

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

Carl Sagan

UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Bill Cosby

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Manoj Bhargava

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Richard Eyre

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Toba Beta

Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.

Mark Udall

We are, in sum, much safer than we were, and I say that as someone who lives just three miles from the site.

Kathryn Harrison

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

Anita Gallentine

I think residents ought to wake up and be concerned. People need to realize their lives won't be the same.

Tom Duffy

We're celebrating right now. It really is historic. It's going to save thousands of lives over the years.

Sidney Taurel

We're going to be saving hundreds of thousands of lives with this product,

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.