Boyd K. Packer Quotes

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

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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

• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  

  William Booth
  • Mother
  • Culture
  • Tree

• I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Forgiveness

• Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.

  

  Nahoko Uehashi
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

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

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Virtue
  • Tolerance
  • Vice