Ed Gordon Quotes

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.

The best medicine for despair is service.

Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end.

Each of us has to face the matter — either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith.

God has saved you to make your appearance in the last days.

Walk by faith. God will open the way. When there is no way, He will open the way.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

The B.C. spirit bear symbolizes the essence of the spirit of British Columbia. It is a powerful presence and a thing of wonder that lives in a magical land of beauty, grace and unbridled potential.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

I want to make the world better.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. "Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.