Top 100 Woodruff Quotes
#1. Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)
Phil Valentine
#2. Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.
(Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)
Salman Rushdie
#3. I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White ... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game.
Charles W. Penrose
#4. You don't right the wrongs of past by wronging the people of the present. (character Norm Woodruff)
Phil Valentine
#5. Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
Rachel Sklar
#6. But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.
Judy Woodruff
#7. The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.
Abraham H. Cannon
#9. How are you, and I'm not her boyfriend. I break up with her every day, but she won't go away.
Jettie Woodruff
#10. For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
Judy Woodruff
#11. You can't hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!
Jettie Woodruff
#12. We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.
Judy Woodruff
#13. No matter how much I wanted to be stronger than him, show him what I was really made of, I couldn't do it. I melted to this man.
Jettie Woodruff
#15. I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#17. Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.
Judy Woodruff
#18. I write for the kid in me ... Often when I'm working on a story, I'll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they've taken the story. It's as if they have a life all their own. What I do is create them and then let them go on to entertain me ...
Elvira Woodruff
#19. I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers.
Wilford Woodruff
#20. I don't get it. Last night you were fine, sitting on my face and fucking my brains out. You didn't seem to have a problem with that last night. What the fuck, Gabriella? What the fuck do you want me to do?
Jettie Woodruff
#21. On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#22. When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.
Wilford Woodruff
#23. After I told you that we were getting married, you told me that you were days away from being eighteen. That intensified my craving for you." "That makes you sound like a pedophile.
Jettie Woodruff
#24. The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it has done the Jews, though the Jews have not been darkened in their skin as have the Lamanites.
Wilford Woodruff
#25. Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?
Judy Woodruff
#27. You have everything to suit your needs, and I have you. My slut, to suit mine.
Jettie Woodruff
#28. There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.
Judy Woodruff
#29. I am lost in the embrace of a soft summer night, surrendering to its ecstasy while the voyeuristic fireflies wink knowingly.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#30. Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.
Judy Woodruff
#31. Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.
Judy Woodruff
#32. Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.
Judy Woodruff
#33. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother's mother, on back to Mother Earth.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#34. If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.
Wilford Woodruff
#35. Time didn't seem to matter when you didn't know who you were or where you belonged.
Jettie Woodruff
#36. The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets, apostles, and inspired men. Whenever the Lord had a people on the earth that he acknowledged as such, that people were led by revelation.
Wilford Woodruff
#38. The system was afraid of Vaclav Havel. And so they either harassed him for put him in jail.
Judy Woodruff
#39. The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.
Judy Woodruff
#40. The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.
Wilford Woodruff
#41. Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing
at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and
treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful
knowledge ...
Wilford Woodruff
#42. You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; ... but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.
Wilford Woodruff
#43. At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.
Judy Woodruff
#44. A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
Judy Woodruff
#45. In my book [Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.
Judy Woodruff
#46. I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.
Judy Woodruff
#47. It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
William Woodruff
#48. He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.
Judy Woodruff
#49. (Peter) If you don't share the lows, it seems you might stop sharing the highs as well.
Nancy Woodruff
#50. I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life. I looked upon the temple and city as they receded from view and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of His Saints.
Wilford Woodruff
#51. Vaclav Havel didn't want to ride around in big black cars. And he had his own car with a little red heart on it. And he loved to go out and talk to the people.
Judy Woodruff
#52. I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.
Judy Woodruff
#54. CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.
Judy Woodruff
#55. Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here.
Judy Woodruff
#56. Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.
Wilford Woodruff
#57. Paxton Pierce was an impossible man. One that no woman could please. Not even me.
Jettie Woodruff
#58. Trust in God.
Do your duty.
Remember your prayers.
Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion.
All will be right.
Wilford Woodruff
#60. His lips met mine and just like the stupid little fish that I was, I sank my teeth right into the hook.
Jettie Woodruff
#61. I treated you like that because you let me, because the fear in your eyes ignited every fire in me, and you asked for it.
Jettie Woodruff
#62. I love you, Morgan," Drew whispered to my lips.
"I hope so, we've been married for eight years," I teased.
He wasn't laughing. "I mean it, Morgan. I love you more than I ever thought possible, and no matter what happens, I'm telling you now, how sorry I am while you love me too.
Jettie Woodruff
#63. There are two types of pain; one that hurt you, and one that changes who you are.
Jettie Woodruff
#64. Why couldn't I just have him for everyday life and Drew at bedtime?
Jettie Woodruff
#65. That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.
Judy Woodruff
#66. A definitive decision to say you should start people on therapy as soon as you know they're infected.
Judy Woodruff
#67. If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
Judy Woodruff
#68. I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.
Judy Woodruff
#69. It amazes me how people can close their minds off to the size of the Universe. With billions of stars, millions of galaxies, and possibly a googol of planets, how can it be that human beings are the only thinking animal in creation?
Coriander Woodruff
#70. In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.
Judy Woodruff
#71. My eyes closed and I again chastised myself. I was weak. So fucking weak. I couldn't fight this man if my life depended on it. I couldn't fight it because I didn't want to. I loved him. Jesus, why did I have to go and do that?
Jettie Woodruff
#72. Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.
Judy Woodruff
#73. I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.
Judy Woodruff
#74. I think we have reached such saturation levels, the money at this point doesn't swing election.
Judy Woodruff
#76. When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.
Judy Woodruff
#77. You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.
Judy Woodruff
#78. The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.
Wilford Woodruff
#79. Ten minutes before I would have drowned in his come. Now I just wanted it off me. I wanted him off me.
Jettie Woodruff
#80. The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving.
Wilford Woodruff
#81. Wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham which leadeth to a Celestial Glory ... for whosoever doeth those things shall be damned Saith the Lord.
Wilford Woodruff
#82. This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.
Judy Woodruff
#83. I have shaken loose. Like the lily, I rest on the deep water's surface. Not knowing the journey's end, I rest in nature's embrace.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#84. It's a compliment. Say thank you. I rather like the connotations to the blow jobs you give. It's like you enjoy it as much as me.
Jettie Woodruff
#85. In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions.
Lee Woodruff
#86. It had been as if she'd talked to God, praising the universe through twinkling stars.
Jettie Woodruff
#89. Paxton
If happiness is the end result, if it's that single want that matters, if we had to through that to get here, I'd do it all over again. If it's the love that matters, then why does it matter how we got there? We were the perfect storm of two kinds of crazy.
Jettie Woodruff
#90. As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
Judy Woodruff
#91. (Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?
Nancy Woodruff
#92. Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.
Judy Woodruff
#94. (Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work.
Nancy Woodruff
#95. (Peter) Some of the most important scenes in our lives are ones we do not witness.
Nancy Woodruff
#97. I fucking exploded when you did that last night. Your body twisted into some fucked up position, your nails dug into my skin, and your entire body orgasmed. And blow jobs. Pfft, you're a dirty, bad girl, and I fucking love it." "I'm not a dirty, bad girl.
Jettie Woodruff
#98. Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#99. Don't look down when someone's talking to you. You look them straight in the eyes. You're bigger than that.
Jettie Woodruff
