Legrand Richards Quotes

#1. Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#2. It is quite in the order of things in folk-tales . . . that a parent should purchase his own safety by sacrificing his son to a ferocious animal or to a supernatural enemy.

C. Fillingham Coxwell

#3. Well, we all have our good days.
That one bad night can ruin.

Nelson Algren

#4. Even winning means nothing. We win because it's an insult to lose.

Brent Weeks

#5. The soul is a mystery. Scientists and Theologians constantly butt heads on the soul's definitive and can't come to grips with its purpose and actual existence. Yet, the basic framework taught in a High School physics class helps with an explanation of the latter - the existence of the soul.

H.D. Rennerfeldt

#6. I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

Andrea Jung

#7. The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.

LeGrand Richards

#8. We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.

LeGrand Richards

#9. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

#10. Books are finished.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#11. (Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#12. There is a statement often repeated in the Church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church Works, it is accepted as church doctrine, and this is: 'As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.'

LeGrand Richards

#13. What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly.
When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting.

Terry Pratchett

#14. For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.

LeGrand Richards

#15. Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

Criss Jami

#16. Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

Rick Perlstein