T. R. Pearson Quotes

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Enduring to the end requires total commitment to the Savior and to our covenants.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

The people in the streets, we need to come together as one.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.