Watchman Nee Quotes

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Think
  • Nature

• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • World
  • Done
  • History

• Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Eye
  • Land

• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Say
  • Latin

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Children
  • Today

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• Consult duty not events.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Duty
  • Events
  • Consult

• Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People
  • Mind
  • Best

• People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic

• When I start doing movies, that'll be the time to pack Vine in. Quit when you're on top. Be the king.

  

  King Bach
  • Time
  • King

• I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Money

• I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• My private life became public.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life

• Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Success
  • Learning

• How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • Believe
  • Question
  • Christian

• I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Family
  • Why
  • Friends

• One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Society

• We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Pride
  • All

• I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.

  

  Watchman Nee
  • School
  • Religious
  • Kitchen