John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.John Piper
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
Natalie Massenet -
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
Sam Smith -
USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis -
They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
Vincent Cassel -
There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
Barry McGee -
You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
Wayne Rogers -
I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!
Peter Tork The Monkees -
I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside.
Janet Jackson -
We are sure the upshot of her visit will be not only a narrowing of our positions on many international problems but also a new impulse to the development of our relations, ... Both sides are trying for exactly that.
Igor Ivanov
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The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.
Flannery O'Connor -
There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.
Luke Rhinehart -
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
Rachel Carson -
My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much and I am willing to do this again if necessary.
Benigno Aquino III -
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts -
An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.
Eric Thomas -
Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.
Susie Bright -
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
John Piper