Thomas Lounsbury Quotes & Sayings

It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth. — David O. McKay

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack. — Stewart Butterfield

In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life. — Charles R. Swindoll

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple. — Alex Tabarrok

I never saw anything like it. He was like the bit in the movie where Tom Cruise is a lawyer and he's decided he's really going to win this case, for the sake of justice and the American way, and that? And it's suddenly like bang-bang-bang - grabbing files off shelves and slamming them down on the desk and punching numbers in the telephone and shaking out the phone cord dramatically , and you know, snapping out instructions to all the assistants around the desk, like: "Get me all the phone records of the President of the United States for the last fifty years," and "Get me the names of every client who ever ate a banana," and "Let's get some Chinese take-out up here, on the double! — Jaclyn Moriarty

The purity and perfection are yet to be invented. — Chandrashekar

Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It's a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots. — Charles Duhigg

If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it. — Mitch Hedberg

Cassius couldn't take any more. "Okay, that's enough. We're done here." His heart hammered, his palms were sweating, and his knees felt wobbly. "We've changed our minds. Just put it back. — Gabrielle Evans

It's so easy to look foolish online. — M.J. Rose

The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded. — Samuel Johnson

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. — Simon Schama