Allan F. Packer Quotes

I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

Allan F. Packer

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• One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
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• I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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• What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.

  

  Olivia Holt
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• In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.

  

  Yang Lan
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• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
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• Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
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• Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.

  

  Lewis Black
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• It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
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• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
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• What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.

  

  Karamo Brown
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• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that – think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.

  

  William Goldman
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• I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

  

  Allan F. Packer
  • Prayer
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  • Scriptures