Elishama Beckford Quotes & Sayings

All faithful members of the Lord's Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances. — Julie B. Beck

In themselves, most of these thoughts are not actually harmful; a few of them may even be rather elevating. The trouble is that we have very little control over them. If you ask the thoughts, they would say, This poor fellow thinks he is thinking us, but we are thinking him. — Eknath Easwaran

In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan. — Lin Yutang

Whatever it took, she would discharge her own duties and meet her own responsibilities. Not just to protect her career, but because they were her duties and responsibilities. — David Weber

There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write. — David Diringer

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the
safe side, he should be castrated anyway. — Hunter S. Thompson

The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral. — Aleksandra Layland

What I liked most was that George had class, the way he walked and talked, reading Shakespeare and all those books. He knew about van Gogh and Picasso, he gave me a book about Dali. And just the way he conducted himself, you could see it. He was very elegant in his manners. — Bruce Porter

Fear is one of the elements of nonlethal weaponry. You're going to get hurt, and you don't want to get hurt. Pepper spray hurts. You don't want to be sprayed. That's why it's a useful deterrent as a nonlethal weapon - I'm not advocating spraying people randomly. — Greg Rucka

Evidence is evidence, Your Honour. Like water, it finds its level. — M.R. Carey

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones — Dana Reinhardt

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time. — Ian McKellen

And people in Hell want ice water — Sherrilyn Kenyon

But to me it sounded like someone throwing a roll of paper towels and a can of frosting into an oven and saying, You know, I think there's a good chance of this turning into a cake. — Lisa Kleypas