Boyd K. Packer Quotes

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

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• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Used
  • Photograph

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Mean
  • Ends
  • Justify

• Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • She
  • Lady Gaga

• Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Mark
  • Mysticism

• All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.

  

  Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Audience
  • Wanted
  • Members

• Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

  

  Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Hear
  • Street
  • Don't Believe

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.

  

  Warren Moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Driving

• 'It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Advice
  • Sad

• The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Immortal
  • Knife
  • Permanent

• In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Political
  • Health

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.

  

  Plutarch
  • Prayer
  • Cities
  • Theatres

• Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Desire
  • Choices
  • Constituents

• If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Permanent
  • Mortal Life