Boyd K. Packer Quotes
If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.
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I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.
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In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
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You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.
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I've got a huge, huge position in mortgage-backed securities. I started accumulating them in 2009, when the market was really down and things were really scary.
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The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.
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Obviously, I'm not working out the way I was when I was playing. I do yoga. I swim a lot. I'm drinking a lot of good, healthy mixes. I got myself a Vitamix.
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If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.
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If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
