Parley P Pratt Quotes

#1. Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy.

Jo Dee Messina

#2. I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

#3. I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

William James

#5. I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.
Grandfather Wills , Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

Hillary Clinton

#7. People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

Tony Robbins

#8. I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world.

Susan Griscom

#9. Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
The past, the present, and the future time.
Thy reminiscences transport the soul
To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.

Parley P. Pratt

#10. It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

Parley P. Pratt

#11. That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example, aggressively cut taxes after being elected to stimulate the economy as a means of helping all Americans.

Mike Bouchard

#12. The gift of the Holy Ghost ... quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

Parley P. Pratt

#13. A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

Lou Holtz

#14. Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.

Parley P. Pratt

#15. There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you're insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, "Hey, I'm a pretty smart guy and I'm pulling it together ... "

Charlie Day

#16. It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

Anita Brookner