Sam Smith Quotations

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

She said some really nice stuff to me. She was going home that day to see her family.

Since the dismissal of Bob Huggins at Cincinnati,

I was pleased with our free-throw shooting, the kids kept their composure and stayed with their game.

I am very appreciative of everything that I have. I have become very, very patient.

He has proven to be an excellent and reliable teammate on a terrific Pistons team.

We are fighting to ensure that every vote counts and counts just once. I am disappointed that it appears the governor has chosen to put politics over good public policy.

We may end up spending what the governor wants to spend. But if we do, we are creating a massive hole for next year.

I would say that on or around Nov. 15 you would be hearing a revised revenue estimate and that midterm fiscal report would say we were in dire straits and that we were in immediate need of a tax increase.

Our quickness came through for us in the end. We lost two seniors to foul trouble and our younger players really answered the call.

My wife and I are both nurses. So we've seen our share of death..but when it's at your front door..it's a little different.

We recognize that there's controversy with this and we'll certainly air that out.

Tuesday, March 7, Dumpsters will be in place, so they can turn in their garbage.

We just wanted to keep them to 14 points.

Even then I was hanging out around these.

Ben Gordon is coming off the best offensive week of his short career, three straight games of at least 30 points. That's right. Time to trade him. This is no knock on Gordon.

Believe me, we're not trying to throw up any obstacles in an election year. You think the members of the Legislature don't want to see a budget passed smooth and quickly this year and get our business done in June and go on the campaign trail in July and August?

It would be nice to see my name roll by. But I'm hearing it might be better not to be drafted. That way, I'll be a priority free agent.

That's good stuff, a black man from Louisiana hugging my grandfather.

You would think that the federal government should be making sure that people who are trying to restart their lives and are trying to put their city back together again are out there working. But that's not the case.

This is the culmination of a strategic plan that we began working on a year and a half ago. We felt that one of the issues we needed to look at very strongly was how to build McMurry and use our resources.

This has been a long process. You have to be patient. Whether someone picks me or not, you just have to want it.

It probably was the last place where he attended class, anyway.

It's pretty intense. It's going to be a big game for us. We have to stop the big, explosion plays. That's the key for us.

I'm excited to get a chance to prove myself. They said get ready, because mini-camp opens in a week. I'll be there.

I'm very happy it's New England. They have a good defensive scheme and a great coach.

I'm calling it the book review of the decade.

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

And now into point-guard hell. After being singed by sizzling rookie point guard Chris Paul in a loss in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, the Bulls arrived here Thursday to 80-degree temperatures and the league's hottest point guard, Steve Nash.

The goal is always to shut them out.

Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be...

Many persons think a prophet must be a good deal better than anybody else. Suppose I would condescend - yes, I will call it condescend, to be a great deal better than any of you. I would be raised to the highest heaven; and who should I have to accompany me?

We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.

I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

With Leighton Smith in charge, we've got a Navy admiral running a predominantly land campaign - the first ever in NATO's 47-year history. ... As the U.S. continues to withdraw from overseas bases, Naval Forces will become even more relevant in meeting American forward presence requirements.

Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.

I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.

In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before.

No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it’s ruining romance, I really do,

Love as hard as you can, at all times

I didn't become successful until I became myself

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

Go tell your general for me that if he does not immediately withdraw his men, I will send them to hell!

Paul ascended into the third heavens and he could understand the THREE PRINCIPLE ROUNDS of Jacobs ladder - the telestial, the terrestrial, and the celestial glories or kingdoms, when Paul saw and heard things which were not lawful to utter. I COULD EXPLAIN A HUNDREDFOLD MORE THAN I EVER HAVE of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision were I permitted and were the people ready to receive them.

Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.

[I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves . . . if any person have a vision or a visitation from a heavenly messenger, it must be for his own benefit and instruction; for the fundamental principles, government, and doctrine of the Church are vested in the keys of the kingdom.

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.

The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.

I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the way we looked at the situation was that the world we live in is a dangerous place. There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true.

A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

You have to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one: from grace to grace FROM EXALTATION TO EXALTATION until you ATTAIN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; [that is,] those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in mortality, in regard to our mortal bodies, are revealed to us in the abstract, and independent of affinity of this mortal tabernacle, but are revealed to our spirits precisely as though we had no bodies at all.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners' leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent occasion to meet the owners.

I have always placed my highest and most permanent hopes upon the eternity of the Communal situation.

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive...

I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.

We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the Prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in restoring to the earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His Church and for the blessing of His people.

Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.

There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle.