"The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates."

-- B. H. Roberts

#Brother Quotes #Character Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.”
“We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.”
“You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.”

Source : Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. October 21, 2010.
“There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.”
“I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.”
“Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated and an enemy in your mind by wicked works, yet now I have reconciled the body of My flesh through death to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in God's sight." "Unworthy! Unworthy!" Rayford cried. "Justified by faith," Jesus said, "Justified.”
“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.”

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