Arthur Tappan Pierson Quotes
The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.Arthur Tappan Pierson
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
Eberhard Weber -
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
Larry Bird -
Music is my release.
Ed Westwick -
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright -
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
Zoe Wanamaker -
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
Ike Skelton
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin -
Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
Irina Shayk -
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley -
An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
Wayne Dyer -
I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
Gary Bauer -
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
Tea Obreht
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
Bear Grylls -
We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
Karen Maitland -
I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
Gad Elmaleh -
The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
Bao Dai -
I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
Felicity Jones
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Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
Barbara Stanwyck -
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield -
Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
Norton Juster -
Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.
Napoleon Hill -
The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all....If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.
Arthur Tappan Pierson