Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Samuel Butler

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

John H. Reagan

The doctrines of his party, are that negro slavery, as it exists with us, is religiously, morally, socially, and politically wrong.

Vikram Seth

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Evel Knievel

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

Kyle Brown

That would have been meant a lot. Seven hundred and one yards, that's a lot. That's something special. Just think if we don't make some of the mistakes that we did.

Jan Eliasson

We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

Octavio Paz

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Samuel Butler

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Holly Black

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

Dennis Flynn

We talked about this a hundred times ... how do you stop a V-bed?

Ezra Taft Benson

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.

Grace Paley

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

Rebecca Jackson

We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.

Russ Anderson

I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Brian Billick

I can do the math. You can't trade sevens for three, plain and simple.

Eric Katzman

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Laurie Colwin

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Neil Cavuto

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Tom Ford

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Brian Anderson

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Kendra Wilkinson

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.