Leland Ryken Quotes
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.Leland Ryken
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
Malala Yousafzai -
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
Carl Karcher -
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
Rafael Yglesias -
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden -
One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
Dak Prescott -
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson -
It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
Rachael Harris
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
Taya Kyle -
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
Salman Rushdie -
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
Florence King -
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
Kaskade
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No technique is possible when men are free. … Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being. … The individual must be fashioned by techniques … in order to wipe out the blots his personal determination introduces into the perfect design of the organization.
Jacques Ellul -
The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
Mitch Miller -
Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.
Celia Thaxter -
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
Jakob Bohme -
I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.
Pam Houston -
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Leland Ryken