J. I. Packer Quotes
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.J. I. Packer
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
Garrett Neff -
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
Manmohan Singh -
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins -
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
Fedor Emelianenko -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
Sally Mann -
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton U2 -
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams -
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
Gary McCord -
I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
Karen Finerman
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
Taraji P. Henson -
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin -
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
Kelly Slater -
There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.
Fred Frith Aksak Maboul -
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
J. I. Packer