J.G. Holland Quotes

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

You're as sick as your secrets.

Very few people have no opinions about cats.

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.

Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start.

If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference

The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

Everything that can be invented has already been invented.

It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.

I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Don't delay. It's getting late.