S Nelson* Quotes

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.

The Savior's way of life is good.

It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

I thank God and His Son, Jesus Christ, for the Restoration and its power to propel a magnificent wave of truth and righteousness across the earth.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

We live in media, as fish live in water.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

Nurture you mind with great thoughts

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

[St. Elmo's Fire] it was pretty soon after that. I know we didn't do Breakfast Club knowing we were going to do that.

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.