Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.
If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.
Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
My undergraduates, at first, get all starry-eyed about the idea of finding their passion, but over time, they get far more excited about developing their passion and seeing it through. They come to understand that that's how they and their futures will be shaped and how they will ultimately make their contributions.
Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids' futures.
We will work constructively with China as we always have. Our futures are very much intertwined in the region.
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.
