Ezra Stiles Quotes

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

Ezra Stiles

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• The Lord
• Obligations

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• This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Business
  • Same

• What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Curiosity

• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  

  Quintilian
  • Food
  • Change
  • Like

• I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Types

• As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Friends
  • Society
  • College

• Often when I feel I am reaching a saturation point in my performances, I think of coming back to NSD and attending workshops.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Performances
  • Saturation
  • Workshops

• People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Name

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Black

• If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Will
  • China
  • Stability

• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Enemy
  • Creativity

• It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Government
  • Growth

• My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.

  

  Valerie June
  • Bad
  • Stars
  • Smell

• When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Friends
  • Brother

• We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Up
  • World
  • Truth

• What better way to foray into production than with 'Khaidi No 150.' The film is truly close to my heart because it is my father's 150th film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Better

• We don't care if you understand us.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Care
  • Understand

• I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Country
  • Trying

• Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Music
  • Real
  • Kind

• The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Men
  • Free

• It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Atheist
  • Adults
  • Agnostic

• I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Desire
  • Slavery
  • United States

• The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • United States
  • The Lord
  • Obligations