William Ames Quotes
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
Quotes to Explore
-
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
-
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
-
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
-
My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
-
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
-
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
-
I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
-
Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
-
Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
-
China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
-
I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
-
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
-
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
-
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
-
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
-
I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
-
The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.
-
It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
-
I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
-
The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.
-
Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!
-
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
