Latter Quotes - Page 24

• The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Sorry, Taken, Departed

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter

  Robin Roberts

  Fearless, Fearful

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• My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

  James Thurber

  Wall, Grandmother, Years

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• Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.

  Larry King

  Smart, Ignorance, Average

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• To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

  Jerome Frank

  Sleep, Community, May

  Jerome Frank (1930). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

  John Hurt

  Two, Directors, Reason

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

  Don DeLillo

  Two, Voice, Creating

  "Masses, Power and the Elegance of Sentences". Interview with Brigitte Desalm, perival.com. October 27, 1992.

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• The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

  Ivan Illich

  Government, People, Decision

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• Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

  Lord Kelvin

  Ocean, Glasses, Sea

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• Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wall, Devil, Resistance

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• For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Given, Former

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.710, Delphi Classics

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• However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Jesus, May, Matter

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• For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hero, Fighting, Men

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• The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as the latter would end in a total anarchy of the state, the former would end in a worthless religious nihilism.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Struggle, Nihilism

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink into the service of pure Mammon, general education, at least in its more ideal attitude, must be retained as a counterweight.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Differences, Today

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.

  H. L. Mencken

  Boys, College, Succeed

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• Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.

  David Bentley Hart

  Beautiful, Views, Order

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• On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

  Edmund Wilson

  Hands, Ideas, Advice

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

  Oliver North

  War, Littles, Too Much

  "Common Sense:The U.N. Fails Freedom — Again" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2006.

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• Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Use, Way

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Strong, Creativity, Class

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• The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

  Caroline Knapp

  Keys, Useless, Insight

  Caroline Knapp (2004). “Appetites: Why Women Want”, p.191, Counterpoint Press

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• The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Party, Struggle, Europe

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• If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same
  age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly
  seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to
  place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they
  are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves
  to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the
  slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death
  amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among
  the latter.

  Petrarch

  Recovery, Doctors, People

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