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Genealogists are time unravelers.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People just have no clue about their genuine nature. I have countless friends who describe themselves as “cynical,” and they’re all wrong. True cynics would never classify themselves as such, because it would mean that they know their view of the world is unjustly negative; despite their best efforts at being grumpy, a self-described cynic is secretly optimistic about normal human nature. Individuals who are truly cynical will always insist they’re pragmatic.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:06 PMComments: 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 is the fate of most new and valuable insights to be enthusiastically developed beyond the limits of certainty, or even of probability.
Speaker: Bernard KnoxPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you will pay more attention to your spiritual self, which is eternal, than to your mortal self, which is temporary, you can always resist the temptations of Satan and conquer his efforts to take you into his power.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
These are life’s delights. These momentary, happy pairings are a deep response to life and nature, a summons to warmth and light. There must once have been a good fairy who ordered the fields and trees expressly for young hearts, and thanks to her we have the eternal ecole buisonniere, that school for lovers under the sky that will endure as long as there are trees and novices.
...The lawyer’s clerk becomes a god. The cries and chasings in the grass, the clasped waist, the murmur of half-spoken words that are a song of rapture, the cherry passed from mouth to mouth, these like a flame rising and sinking are the heaven of life. Girls sweetly give themselves and believe that it will last forever. Philosophers, poets, and painters contemplate these ecstasies and cannot encompass them, so dazzled are they.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
Speaker: Groucho MarxPosted: 01 Oct 2008 at 4:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I gotta go home and release a beta product
you mean taking a crap?Speaker: Adam and BlakeSource: Adam being serious, Blake thinking it's codePosted: 20 Dec 2012 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
'To be poor in spirit is to feel yourselves as the spiritually needy, even dependent upon the Lord for your clothes, your food, the air you breathe, your health, your life; realizing that no day should pass without fervent prayer of thanksgiving, for guidance and forgiveness and strength sufficient for each day’s need. ... To the worldly rich it is that “he must possess his wealth as if he possessed it not”
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Not every picture needs a caption.
Posted: 02 Aug 2010 at 4:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction.
Source: Bhagavad GitaPosted: 14 Mar 2010 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Speaker: Anais NinPosted: 29 Sep 2009 at 7:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I didn’t think this day would come. Squeaky Fromme – tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford – she’s been let out of prison. She was paroled. Is she going to get a job? If you think about it, there aren’t many jobs for unstable, gun-toting women unless she wants to run for governor of Alaska.
Speaker: David LettermanPosted: 23 Aug 2009 at 9:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Michael: Apple TV was rated last in a list of media streamers…
Andy: How was your pancreas rated in a list of useful organs?
Michael: One notch above your stomach.
Andy: You can’t pull the organ card on me, mine all function.
Michael: Yeah, but your stomach barely functions, it’s intolerant, painful and even debilitating at times…
Andy: Just like your friendship
Speaker: Michael P & Andy TSource: Text Message ConversationPosted: 07 Feb 2011 at 9:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Speaker: Victor HugoPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you could teach with power and authority… teach your investigators to be baptized for the remission of sins, and I promise you that your baptisms will double or triple.
…I ask you to teach the Atonement. Teach repentance. Teach that we’re in big trouble, and there’s only one way out.Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The average man can be led readily if you have his respect and if you show him that you respect him for some kind of ability.
Speaker: Samuel VauclainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses. Making something isn’t good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It’s our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can’t I? Where’s mine, huh? OK, so my band, we put on the best live shows you could ever see in a bar, and we made two albums, which a lot of critics and not many real people liked. But having talent is never enough to make us happy, is it? I mean, it should be, because a talent is a gift, and you should thank God for it, but I didn’t. It just pissed me off because I wasn’t being paid for it, and it didn’t get me on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Oscar Wilde once said, “One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” Well, fucking right on, Oscar. My real life was full of headlining shows at Wembley and Madison Square Garden and platinum records, and Grammys, and that wasn’t the life I was leading, which is maybe why it felt like I could throw it away.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My experience is that once you stop putting question marks behind the prophet’s statements and put exclamation points instead, and do it, the blessings just pour.
I never ask myself, “when does the prophet speak as a prophet and when does he not?” My interest has been, “how can I be more like him?”Speaker: Russell M. NelsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!