Boyd K. Packer Quotes

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

Boyd K. Packer

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Culture
  • Style
  • Architecture

• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • You
  • Possible

• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Person
  • Illusion
  • Meet

• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Age

• An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Interesting

• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Kitchen

• In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

  

  Cynthia Kadohata
  • College

• So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • Fly

• The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Attention
  • All Things
  • Pay Attention

• In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Discipline

• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Mind
  • Children

• The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Woman
  • Surpasses
  • Tyrannising

• A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

  

  Paolo Nutini

• Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Good
  • May
  • Friends

• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Virtue
  • Demand
  • Greater

• Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Virtue
  • Tolerance
  • Vice