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Adoniram Judson Quotes

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Adoniram Judson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 9, 1788 - April 12, 1850

Topics

God Religion Happy Waiting Window

There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least nothing horrendous enough to warrant your father leaving work.

Jenny Mollen

Work Father Child Doctor Enough You

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

Amy Heckerling

People Think Better View Bad True

I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

Tony Curran

Good Ideas You Take For Granted Boy

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Robert Browning

Man Him Would Which Does Tis

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

Ruby Dee

New York New Background Come York

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

Strength Success Me You Goal Secret

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

Jase Robertson

Flying Duck Sitting Same Shot

He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.

Don Shula

Job Man Tough Name Situation Done

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

Diane Keaton

Life I Am Want Hold Absolutely Am

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

Christopher Nolan

Work Technology Responsibility Feel

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

Clayton M. Christensen

Happy People You Find Results Copy

The first thing I do when I get back to my hometown, San Antonio, is eat Whataburger.

Austin Mahone

Hometown Back First Eat Get Thing