Boyd K. Packer Quotes

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

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• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • You
  • Fight
  • Corruption

• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Face

• To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Job
  • Science

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Time
  • World
  • Want

• It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Best
  • Cultures
  • West

• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Power
  • Help
  • Man

• As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

  

  P. Sathasivam
  • Work
  • Law
  • Government

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • English
  • Independent

• The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Age
  • Education

• Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jealousy

• We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Sun
  • Magic

• When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Lazy

• I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • Real
  • Teenager

• Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Truth

• It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

  

  Avi
  • Book
  • American
  • Author

• I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and around and feeling really happy. That is something that I'm striving for.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Happy
  • House

• I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Brother
  • Learned
  • Rocks

• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Politics
  • Gay
  • Late

• There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Mother
  • Things
  • Prayers