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“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

Knows Writing Littles Felt Dark White Consciousness Known Sea Creating Fearless Beach Sand Hopeful Insecure Launching White Sand

Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977

Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977

“President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith”

“The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.”

“It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are found in great numbers, some lying on the surface of the earth, and some a little below it ... But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings.”

Wells Littles Has Beens Earth America Lying Certain Found Animal Numbers Known Remains Surface Well Known Magnitude Ohio Skeletons Paleontology Grinder

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.”

Men World Littles Has Beens Country Numbers Cities Known Produce Ten Towns Reputation Great Men Compliment Twelve

Book:The citizen of the world

Source: The citizen of the world

“I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.”

Children Littles Has Beens Done Born Known Boys Boring Als Gore Little Boys

Author:Cokie Roberts

“In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.”

Littles Book Views Known Four Window Village County Carriages Luxurious Welsh High Road Picturesque Small Villages

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.”

“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.”

“And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!”

Way Feels Should Littles Hands Earth Known Knowing Sky Youth Pride Machines Blue Wings Flight Secure Aviation Horizon Laughed Riding Should I Farewell Daylight Hazards Ever After

Author:Cecil Arthur Lewis

“If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.”

Ifs Wells Littles Art Stills I Can Helping Body Moving Felt Realizing Known Rocks Higher Right Now One Day Music Is Incredibles Dance Music High Art

Author:Yoko Ono

“There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.”

People Littles Problem Artist Actors Secret Known Streets Musician Physicist Marketplace Problem Solvers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.”

Feels Kind Mean Littles Play Bigs Kids School Known Boys Team Football College High School Program Shy Outsiders Little Kid Football Team Preps

Author:John C. Reilly

“I'm completely fascinated by the health-care debate going on in the United States, especially by posters of Obama with a little mustache drawn on his upper lip. Is that what Hitler is really known for, his health-care plan? To quote Bill Maher, "I haven't seen this many pissed-off old white people since they cancelled 'Murder She Wrote.'"”

People Littles States Care White United Known United States Plans Havens Murder Bills Lips Debate Health Care Fascinated Posters Pissed Off Mustache

Author:David Sedaris

“I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.”

Thinking Littles Feelings Mother Guy Known Special Something Special

Author:Tommy Chong

“In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.”

People Littles Shows Age Young Three Numbers Fiction Known Golden Decent Fading Golden Age Philip Snicket

Author:David Mitchell

“It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits.”

Source: The Philosophical Works of John Locke

“I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.”

Ifs Men World Writing Littles War Young Fiction Known Gone Effects Young Man Writing Fiction Iliad

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.”

Littles Made Film Fun Known Periods Relation Studios Cinema Things To Do Classic Italian Worthwhile Like Something Evoke Doing You Fun Things

Author:Wim Wenders

“I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.”

“I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'”

Thinking World Should Littles Said Evil Names Simple Known Boys Angel Awe Good And Evil Little Boys Joseph Smith

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.”

May Littles Real Given Interesting Common Known Accounts Contribution Vivid Arabia Day Life

Author:Philip Khuri Hitti

“Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists.”

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“I think one of the dirty little secrets that I try to reveal here is that Washington is not hopelessly divided. It's very interconnected. We're talking about people sort of feeding from the same insider trough, where if you are known as an insider, you are going to get paid and do very, very, very well.”

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Author:Mark Leibovich

“You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast.”

Knows Mind Littles Soul Reason Moments Moving Realizing Known Caught Caught Up Bondage

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.”

Littles Bigs Kids Life Is Known Stress Financial Cancer Seeking Cures Tension Hardship Little Kid Financial Hardship

Author:Andy Richter

“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.”

Thinking May Littles Long Two War Sometimes Body Moving Games Differences Numbers Company Known Position Depends Please Stronger Chess Division Relative Troops Equipment Knights Pawns

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I'm not great around the house, I'm pretty useless. I do little bits, but I never quite finish tidying up - I'll start, but I'll leave things unwashed in the sink. It has been known to irritate people somewhat.”

People Littles Has Beens House Bits Known Little Bit Useless Never Quit Tidying Up

Author:Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

“I recognized that there are some well-known, little understood, and seldom practiced laws that we must live by if we wish to find peace within or without. Included are the laws that evil can only be overcome by good; that only good means can attain a good end; that those who do unloving things hurt themselves spiritually.”

Ifs Wells Mean Littles Ends Law Evil Wish Hurt Known Understood Overcoming Live By Well Known Finding Peace Peace Within

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.”

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Author:Mike Royko

“There was never any question about Scholesy's quality as a footballer. He was known as the little ginger magician in the youth team. Some reckon he's the best United player of the modern era, and there's a case for saying that. You don't hear him blowing his own trumpet, though - he just gets on with his job. He's the real deal.”

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Author:Steve Bruce

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.”

Littles Known Generations Land Ocean Infinite Add Possession Midst Finite Illuminating Solidity Little Knowledge Prized Possessions

Book:Selected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Selected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"”

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