Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

We are particularly proud of our youth. I think we have never had a stronger generation of young men and women than we have today. For the most part they are true to the faith of their forebears. Surrounded by forces that would pull them down and tremendous pressures to pull them away from time-tested virtues, they are going forward with constructive lives, nurturing themselves both intellectually and spiritually. We have no fears or doubts concerning the future of this work.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion. Any man who will make his wife's comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come

Gordon B. Hinckley

We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with a family, reason with them, teach them, testify to them, and pray with them. We shall always need missionaries.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?

Gordon B. Hinckley

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A truly educated man never ceases to learn.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Gladys Knight

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Man created God, not God, man

Glen Cook

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Glen Cook

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

Glen Cook

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

Geronimo

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

Gerrit Smith

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Gerrit Smith

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

Gerrit Smith

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Gerrit Smith

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Gerrit Smith

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Gerrit Smith

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

Gerry Adams

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Geraldine Brooks

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Geraldine Brooks

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

Gerard De Nerval

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

Gerard De Nerval

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

Georgette Heyer

I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!

Georgette Heyer

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

Georgette Heyer

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Horace

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

Horace

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Horace

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]