Mastership Award Quotes & Sayings

The Book of Mormon proposes a new purpose for America: becoming a realm of righteousness rather than an empire of liberty. Against increasing wealth and inequality, the Book of Mormon advocates the cause of the poor. Against the subjection of the Indians, it promises the continent to the native people. Against republican government, it proposes righteous rule by judges and kings under God's law. Against a closed canon Bible and non-miraculous religion, the Book of Mormon stands for ongoing revelation, miracles and revelation to all nations. Against skepticism, it promotes belief; against nationalism, a universal Israel. It foresees disaster for the nation if the love of riches, resistance to revelation, and Gentile civilization prevail over righteousness, revelation and Israel. — Richard L. Bushman

Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation. — Gene Wolfe

NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001 — Neil Gaiman

God gave us words--it's our job to give them wings — Hope Welsh

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good! — Florenz Ziegfeld

I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her. — Edmund White

If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything? — Julie Garwood

Sales winners educate with new ideas and perspectives almost three times more often than second-place finishers. Of 42 factors studied, the greatest difference between winners and second-place finishers was their propensity to educate. — Mike Schultz

The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H Gass

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth. — Roone Arledge

I look formidable. — Vin Diesel

Descend lower, descend only
Into the world of perpetual solitude,
World not world, but that which is not world,
Internal darkness, deprivation
And destitution of all property,
Desiccation of the world of sense,
Evacuation of the world of fancy,
Inoperancy of the world of spirit; — T. S. Eliot

I lay awake for hours and watched you sleep," he murmurs. "I might have loved you even then. — E.L. James