William Carey Quotes

William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

William Carey

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• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Debt

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Integrity

• I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Good
  • Never
  • Anything

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • You
  • More
  • Build

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

  

  Andre Boucourechliev
  • Competition

• Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • Immortal

• The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Know

• In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Education
  • Segregation
  • Liberated

• Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Thinking
  • Understanding
  • Marriage

• William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

  

  William Carey
  • Culture
  • Distance
  • Impossible