Age Quotes - Page 40

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.

Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front - sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing.

The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.

Discouragement is not from God.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.

Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.