October 2013 General Conference Quotes & Sayings

Maybe the meaning was in how we heard the sound, but did nothing about it until it was so loud we had no choice. — Cheryl Strayed

Sometimes it's good to be not so popular. — Alex Mack

You're good in school. Everybody likes you." "For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me. — Madeleine L'Engle

In imitation is a bit suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows. — Carol Burnett

You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength. — Jonathan Renshaw

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges. — Lee H. Hamilton

I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased. — David Simon

I've always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he's able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. — Lee Iacocca

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research. — Alan Dundes