Boyd K. Packer Quotes

You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.

Boyd K. Packer

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• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Business
  • Body
  • Negative

• An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Great
  • True

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Reading
  • Everything
  • Ever

• Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Nobody

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Political
  • Pressure

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Driver

• Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Fear

• I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Way
  • Quality
  • Changing

• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • Heart
  • Picture

• Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

  

  Mary Kay Blakely
  • Divorce

• What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Destroy
  • Communism

• For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

  

  Martin Luther
  • My Life
  • Christ
  • Innocence

• Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Action
  • Years
  • Difficult

• We need a wealth tax that on a one-time basis is going to take back at least some small fraction of the great windfall that the upper 1 percent, or 5 percent and pay down the government debt, pay back the federal debt because we can't put this on the next generation or they're going to be buried paying taxes.

  

  David Stockman
  • Wealth
  • Generation

• The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Friendship
  • Memory
  • Duty

• You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Dead
  • Baptism
  • Essential