Boyd K. Packer Quotes

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

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• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Thoughts
  • Walk

• The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Control
  • Red
  • Difficult

• International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Control
  • Military
  • Police

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Control
  • Single
  • Best

• When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Control

• I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Why
  • Think
  • Control

• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • True
  • Control
  • Principles

• Holy Joe:  And on the day of judgment everything will be replayed, even your thoughts

  

  Jack Chick
  • Thoughts

• I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Control
  • Player

• O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 22Survey our empire, and behold our home!These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Home
  • Free
  • Dark

• There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Thoughts

• Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

  

  Ella R. Bloor
  • Hope
  • Control

• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Good
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Thinking
  • Control

• A secret control slip is a wonderful invention. It sculpts and lifts the bum and smooths the hips.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Control

• I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Nature
  • Determined
  • Labels

• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.

  

  Edmond H. Fischer
  • Success
  • Better
  • Saying

• He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
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