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Thomas S. Monson Quotes

The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.

Thomas S. Monson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 21, 1927 - January 2, 2018

Topics

Opportunity Gift Lift Privilege Much

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

Matthew McConaughey

Work Wife Friends Know Will She

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Life Art May Imitate TV Imitates

I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.

Amanda Abbington

Good People Looking Quite Listener

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

Steven Spielberg

Character Color Back Kind Hand Like

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

Mother Great Challenge Day Every Day

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Opportunity People Door Talk Gate

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.

Technology Great Time Brain Reading

My family and I couldn't be more happy for the opportunity to run with and serve with the next president of the United States.

Family Opportunity Happy Run More

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

Life Relationship Sad Joy People

You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.

You Sometimes Traffic Valleys Stuck

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Myself Happy People Amazing Think

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

Donald Pleasence

Character Time Building Process Feel

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