Adoniram Judson Quotes

The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

Adoniram Judson

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• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Husband

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • True
  • Sweet

• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Style
  • Movies
  • Bag

• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Yourself

• I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!

  

  Callie Thorne
  • True
  • Me
  • Blood

• I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Think
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Want
  • Free

• Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Today
  • Action
  • Movies

• I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Great
  • Love
  • Perfect

• I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Movies
  • Walk
  • Cook

• A visible darkness grows up mountain paths;I lodge by the river gate high in a study,Frail cloud on a cliff edge passing the night.The lonely moon topples amid the waves;Steady, one after another, a line of cranes in flight.Howling over the kill, wild dogs and wolves.No sleep for me. I worry over battles-I have no strength to right the universe.

  

  Du Fu
  • Up
  • High
  • Night

• But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • River
  • Stream
  • Reflected

• Ernest Mtunzi, Former UK Representative of Joshua Nkomo.

  

  Ian Smith

• I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Book

• Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Song
  • Listening

• The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • River
  • Missionary