Top 1200 Latter Quotes & Sayings

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy.' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him.'

Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; that latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice; the latter a virtue.

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

The audience is different for TV and web, but the latter offers everything for everyone.

Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times - the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

A true Latter–day Saint family is a haven against the storms and struggles of life.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

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

I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.

The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

The faith of the Latter-day Saints and the teaching that I have had since I was a child at my mother's knee, as well as from this stand, is that the Constitution of our country was written by men inspired of the Lord God Almighty. Therefore we, as Latter-day Saints, more than any other people, ought to be supporters of the Constitution, and all constitutional law.

If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The latter end of joy is woe.

There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-?destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood

I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

As Latter-day Saints we must ever be vigilant. The way for each person and each family to guard against the slings and arrows of the Adversary and to prepare for the great day of the Lord is to hold fast to the iron rod, to exercise greater faith, to repent of our sins and shortcomings, and to be anxiously engaged in the work of His kingdom on earth, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Herein lies the only true happiness for all our Father's children.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.