Adam Clarke Quotes

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

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• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • Believe
  • Service

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Comfortable
  • Malaysia

• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • For Her

• I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Depression

• Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Always
  • Rather
  • Whiskey

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Time
  • Power
  • War

• I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Enjoying

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • God
  • Man
  • Stop

• I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Star

• I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Live
  • Country
  • House

• For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Nice
  • Church
  • Jesus

• The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Earth

• Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

  

  William Blum
  • Action
  • Degrees
  • Discomfort

• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Expect