Jim Elliot Quotes

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

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• I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Home
  • Mother
  • College

• We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Dog
  • Bed
  • Quotation

• For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Up
  • Way
  • Audience

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Good
  • Day
  • Makeup

• The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

  

  Adam Green
  • Truth
  • Feel
  • Truth Is

• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Deep
  • Religion

• I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • High
  • Water
  • Like

• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Heart
  • Desire

• I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Human
  • Animals

• I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Great
  • Greatness

• Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History

• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Life

• 'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Small

• Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Action
  • Moving
  • Approach

• Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

  

  Anne Holm
  • People
  • Remember
  • Sorrow

• I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • Up
  • California

• I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Hair

• I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • War
  • Starvation
  • Democracies

• Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

  

  Jim Elliot