Top 100 Kimball Quotes
#1. I think it is good for people who are incarcerated or who are bound up one way or the other-people like Lily Kimball and all the prostitues of Memphis. This gal, she needs some wings, and a good song can make that happen.
Ketch Secor
#4. People just ... disappear," he says.
"The Earth just opens up and swallows people," I say, some what sadly, checking my Rolex.
"Eerie." Kimball yawns, stretching. "Really eerie."
"Ominous." I nod my agreement.
"It's just"- he sights, exasperated- "futile.
Bret Easton Ellis
#5. So ... " Kimball looks at his book helplessly. "There's nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?"
"Well." I sigh. "He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. " Really stumped, I offer, "He ... ate a balanced diet.
Bret Easton Ellis
#7. Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church.
J. Golden Kimball
#8. My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.
Al Jarreau
#9. Elder Spencer W. Kimball once said, "I rely upon that promise of the Lord that he will strengthen and empower me that I may be able to do this work to which I have been called" (in Conference Report, October 1943, 18).
Thomas R. Valletta
#10. A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody ... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.
Christine Schutt
#11. That was a lesson everyone (every human?) learned before puberty, not to let reality seem diminished by fiction. As the proverb went, It's bad enough comparing yourself to Isaac Newton without comparing yourself to Kimball Kinnison.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#12. Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.
Spencer W. Kimball
#13. Well, I've almost got the problem licked. I'm eighty now, and in a few more years, I think I'll have it completely under control. (referring to his love of coffee)
J. Golden Kimball
#14. Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth ... All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.
Spencer W. Kimball
#15. I'm more of a comedian. I wouldn't mind being on SNL (Saturday Night Live). I think that would be cool.
Cheyenne Kimball
#16. Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.
Roger Kimball
#18. But that was the thing about life. Sometimes it's boring, and nothing happens. Sometimes everything happens at once. And sometimes it's just plain stupid.
Joe Kimball
#20. I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.
Charlie Kimball
#21. [M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.
Charles Kimball
#22. Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
Spencer W. Kimball
#23. Did I imagine all this? People are shooting at me! My job blew up, and I just watched myself exit my own room! This has been one day I will never forget!
D.W. Beam
#24. It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.
Heber C. Kimball
#25. I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.
Spencer W. Kimball
#26. Kitsch lives with one foot in the realm of aesthetics and another foot in the realm of ethics.
Roger Kimball
#27. I have to consider everything I eat; I consider every activity I do.
Charlie Kimball
#28. It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.
Spencer W. Kimball
#29. I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh.
Heber C. Kimball
#30. One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!
Spencer W. Kimball
#31. It seems odd that a story about a gift-the possibility of a new life in a new and prosperous country-begins with a thief, but in some ways this one does.
Kimball Taylor
#32. As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.
Charlie Kimball
#33. The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different
Spencer W. Kimball
#34. The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.
Dan Kimball
#35. We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.
Spencer W. Kimball
#36. I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.
Spencer W. Kimball
#37. He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.
Spencer W. Kimball
#38. By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.
Spencer W. Kimball
#39. There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
Spencer W. Kimball
#40. Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
Spencer W. Kimball
#41. Cooking is about putting food on the table night after night, and there isn't anything glamorous about it.
Christopher Kimball
#43. In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.
Roger Kimball
#44. If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.
Spencer W. Kimball
#45. I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.
J. Golden Kimball
#46. It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.
Spencer W. Kimball
#47. It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.
Spencer W. Kimball
#48. I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves
Spencer W. Kimball
#49. The closed doorway to Mr. Langley's homeroom, once so intimidating, has no effect on me now. I shove it open and storm inside, tardy and fully prepared to take on anyone who has a problem with that.
Meg Kimball
#52. Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church today; he hears our prayers when we humbly, earnestly, unceasingly seek to know his will, making this, too, a day of miracles and of revelation.
Spencer W. Kimball
#53. Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
Dan Kimball
#54. When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship.
Kristin Kimball
#55. Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.
Spencer W. Kimball
#56. Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac were all on the side of the savage. That their penny-ante gnosticism was not only perpetuated but mythologized and spread abroad as a gospel of emancipation is something for which we have the Sixties to thank -- or to blame.
Roger Kimball
#57. Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.
Spencer W. Kimball
#59. They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.
Spencer W. Kimball
#60. We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.
Spencer W. Kimball
#61. The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve others - indeed, it is easier to "find" ourselves because there is so much more of us to find!
Spencer W. Kimball
#62. ... Repentance is ever the key to a better, happier life. All of us need it.
Spencer W. Kimball
#63. Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.
Roger Kimball
#66. TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
Cheyenne Kimball
#68. There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.
Roger Kimball
#69. Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We see the results of the assaults against freedom all around us.
Roger Kimball
#70. I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves - and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.
Spencer W. Kimball
#71. Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.
Spencer W. Kimball
#72. There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.
Spencer W. Kimball
#73. The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, ... the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions ... Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.
Spencer W. Kimball
#74. No, Rae, the clocks won't chime again, these clocks have marked my fall. - Fletcher Green
Kimball Lee
#75. Incidentally, why is it that drug abuse is always described as an 'experiment', as if some important scientific enterprise were at stake instead of hedonistic self-indulgence?
Roger Kimball
#76. The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment
Spencer W. Kimball
#78. To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
Spencer W. Kimball
#79. For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
Dan Kimball
#80. We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.
Spencer W. Kimball
#81. There's no better cure for snobbiness than a good a** kicking.
Kristin Kimball
#82. The statement, "As a man thinketh, so is he," could equally well be rendered "As a man thinketh, so does he." If one thinks it long enough he is likely to do it.
Spencer W. Kimball
#83. Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide.
Charlie Kimball
#84. I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.
J. Golden Kimball
#85. Whatever thing a man sets his heart on ... is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.
Spencer W. Kimball
#86. How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?
Spencer W. Kimball
#87. You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother.
Spencer W. Kimball
#88. Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding ... And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.
Spencer W. Kimball
#89. I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.
Cheyenne Kimball
#90. We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.
Roger Kimball
#92. Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.
Spencer W. Kimball
#93. Choose well, thy choice is brief, and yet endless.
Kimball Lee
#94. [I can't start the day without] checking my cellphone ... I love messages!
Cheyenne Kimball
#95. There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.
Spencer W. Kimball
#97. You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.
Heber C. Kimball
#98. It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom ... So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving ... help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow ... from small but deliberate deeds!
Spencer W. Kimball
#99. Trimmed in gleaming teakwood. The cavernous space had been fashioned into offices and conference rooms centered on a grandiose lobby
Kimball Lee
#100. Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.
Spencer W. Kimball
