Oct 2019 General Conference Quotes

#1. Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

Nami Mun

#2. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both

Paulo Freire

#3. A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Jack Ramsay

#4. Follow your bliss

Joseph Campbell

#5. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won't punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
(Or a badger.)

Laini Taylor

#6. By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.

Milton Friedman

#7. If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.

Francis Quarles

#8. Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Alice Miller

#9. Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.

Evangeline Lilly

#10. I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

Roger Ebert

#11. All I can do is live the life I have. I can't trade it in for a new one. However strange and misshapen it might be, this is it for the gene carrier that is me.

Haruki Murakami

#12. The history of this world was divided into two phases: the present age, which was controlled by the forces of evil, and the age to come, in which God would rule supreme.

Bart D. Ehrman