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Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) you don’t know how long, though. It’s not your choice. Maureen’s rope ties her to Matty and it’s about six inches long and it’s killing her. Martin’s rope ties him to his daughters and, like a stupid dog, he thinks it isn’t there. He goes running off somewhere – into a nightclub after a girl, up a building, whatever – and then suddenly it brings him up short and chokes him and he acts surprised, and then he does the same thing again the next day.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...before great moments, certainly before great spiritual moments, there can come adversity, opposition, and darkness.”
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Ensign, March 2000Posted: 29 Aug 2013 at 4:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
anger is just vulnerability’s mask.
Speaker: Warren FarrellPosted: 09 Jan 2015 at 2:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’d rather spend an hour with a reasonable Christian than spend… any time at all with a vegan atheist.
Speaker: Marc MaronPosted: 08 Jan 2015 at 6:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Speaker: Frederick DouglassPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
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I didn’t know that other people thought things about me. I didn’t know that they looked
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For children, love is a feeling. For adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts. Adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
Speaker: Orson Scott CardSource: PathfinderPosted: 26 Mar 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything popular is wrong.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Charity is the ability to separate the man from the things he does.
Speaker: Hyrum SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men will work hard for money. [Men] will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause… Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Speaker: Arnold J. ToynbeePosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I need to find out what I believe about a subject before I can be at peace with that subject. That means that I can’t teach it until I know it, and I can’t give my opinion about it until I know what my opinion is. And even more important, I can’t live it until I know what it is.
…You won’t know what you believe until you can get it down to 3-5 concepts.Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
Speaker: William BulithoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Celui qui excelle ne discute pas, – Il maîtrise sa science et se tait.
Speaker: Lao-TseuPosted: 13 Feb 2009 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God forbid that there should be any of us so unwisely indulgent, so thoughtless and so shallow in our affection for our children that we dare not check them in a wayward course, in wrongdoing and in their foolish love for the things of the world more than for the things of righteousness, for fear of offending them.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Gospel Doctrine, p. 286Posted: 26 Feb 2012 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Will Pain 4 Food
('pain’ being French, for Bread)Speaker: GryphSource: Skype, Gryph making fun of a message for being full of BlakeryPosted: 29 Mar 2013 at 10:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!