atahymasgeor's Quote Board, page 1
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I still wish for an America that matches the marketing material.
Speaker: Dan CarlinPosted: 22 Apr 2019 at 7:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every good thing that’s happened to me… has come because of my mission. So forgive me if I come to your mission , and I don’t think you’re working, and go ballistic!... I’m not neutral… it means everything to me.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
Speaker: Sir Thomas Pope BlountPosted: 01 Feb 2017 at 7:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Speaker: Winston ChurchillPosted: 01 Feb 2017 at 7:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 01 Feb 2017 at 7:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only control placed on us is self-control—self-control born of respect for the divine power this gift represents.
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Personal Purity, Feb 2000Posted: 13 Jun 2016 at 6:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
Speaker: Joseph AddisonPosted: 13 Jun 2016 at 6:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
Speaker: Salman RushdiePosted: 14 Feb 2015 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are not angered my mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims on life, therefore, that your patient can be induced to make, the more often he will feel injured and, as a result, ill-tempered.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...so long as good deeds are motivated by selfish or malicious desires they cannot transform and enrich either the giver or the receiver”
Source: Joseph Fielding McConkie, Robert L. Millet, and Brent L. Top, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of MormonPosted: 09 Jun 2015 at 1:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just as the United States had managed to largely get rid of the problem of political corruption by making the bribery of legislators effectively legal (it was redefined as “lobbying”), so the problem of loan-sharking was brushed aside by making real interest rates of 25 percent, 50 percent, or even in some cases (for instance for payday loans) 120 percent annually, once typical only of organized crime, perfectly legal — and therefore, enforceable no longer by just hired goons and the sort of people who place mutilated animals on their victims’ doorsteps, but by judges, lawyers, bailiffs, and police.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Speaker: Elbert HubbardPosted: 28 Mar 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 05 Sep 2009 at 8:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.
Speaker: Pierre BordieuSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are too many lies in my head to accept something as simple as the truth.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizSource: the Voice of KnowledgePosted: 21 May 2014 at 3:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ivan Lukianchuk: try sending in a few scabs
Gryphon Von Doomhammer: they are our canarySpeaker: Ivan and GryphSource: On Skype when testing to see if a fix went through on live serversPosted: 15 Apr 2013 at 7:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Sometimes you may struggle with a problem and not get an answer. What could be wrong? It may be that you are not doing anything wrong. It may be that you have not done the right things long enough. Remember, you cannot force spiritual things. Sometimes we are confused simply because we won’t take no for an answer. …
“Put difficult questions in the back of your minds and go about your lives. Ponder and pray quietly and persistently about them.
“The answer may not come as a lightning bolt. It may come as a little inspiration here and a little there, ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ (D&C 98:12).
“Some answers will come from reading the scriptures, some from hearing speakers. And, occasionally, when it is important, some will come by very direct and powerful inspiration. The promptings will be clear and unmistakable”.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1979, 29–30; or Ensign, Nov. 1979, 21Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
Speaker: Henry MackenzieSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
prunes = stool oil
Speaker: TedSource: Skype re: (drum) stool needing oil from conversationPosted: 03 Jan 2013 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True bravery is shown by performing with no witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!