Boyd K. Packer Quotes
It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.
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Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!
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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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Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.
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You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.
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The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
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There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
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The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This is the outcome of allowing Jesus to satisfy every area of life to its depth. The picture resulting from such a life is that of the strong, calm balance that our Lord gives to those who are intimate with Him.
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Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.
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It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.
