Jim Elliot Quotes

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

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• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Growing
  • Years

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Fan
  • Tim Burton
  • Tim

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Story
  • Courtesy

• It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Media
  • News

• I climb mountains.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Mountains
  • Climb

• It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Live
  • Family
  • True

• For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Saying

• The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Kids
  • Service
  • Difference

• Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Important
  • Forget

• All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Doubt

• Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Nature
  • Technology
  • Study

• Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings.

  

  Jane Chen

• Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • Up
  • Long
  • Sun

• A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Adventure