Dallin H. Oaks Quotes

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Dallin H. Oaks

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Film
  • Wonder
  • Enough

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Problems
  • Because
  • Grow

• When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Moment

• I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • News

• If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Enough
  • Win
  • Lose

• Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Always
  • Enough

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Job
  • Enough
  • Drummer

• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Hand
  • Enough
  • U.S.

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • May
  • Ideas
  • Enough

• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enough
  • Actor
  • Busy

• I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Want
  • Because
  • Anything

• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Taken
  • Enough
  • Easy

• You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Enough
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Like
  • Enough
  • Mature

• I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Film
  • Made
  • Because

• We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Because
  • Going
  • Away

• The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Powerful
  • Feelings
  • Enough

• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Experience

• You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • People
  • Running
  • Wife

• Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Book
  • Study

• You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

  

  Dallin H. Oaks
  • Enough
  • Because
  • Satisfy