Quorum Quotes

#1. Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.

Ashton Kutcher

#2. I opened myself to your silences.

Margaret Atwood

#3. The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Thomas J. Sargent

#4. We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.

Bonnie Bassler

#5. And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive.

Karen Templeton

#6. You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

Eric Schneiderman

#7. In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.

Niecy Nash

#8. Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.

Tommy Rettig

#9. Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity as well as a privilege and an honor, then assignments and challenges should certainly be given to every member of the quorum.

James E. Faust

#11. Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#12. Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

Allan Gurganus

#13. QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. But it isn't you, is it?
Then he winced inwardly, because that sounded far more ... meaningful than he'd intended

Manna Francis

#15. They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.]

Juvenal

#16. So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it's different; it's important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present.

Martha Rosler

#17. Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.

Philip Yancey

#18. Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

Lucretius

#19. Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.

D. Todd Christofferson

#20. I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#21. I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Carol Burnett

#22. Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

Clint Eastwood

#23. Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#24. Why if every practising polygamist went home from the Congress there would not be a quorum left to do business.

Various

#25. Nothing has happened today except kindness.

Gertrude Stein

#26. You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!

Richelle Mead