Jim Elliot Quotes
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Jim Elliot
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
Taylor Sheridan
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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
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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
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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
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
Nate Silver
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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
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
Vincent Cassel
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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
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Camille Paglia
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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
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'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'
Anthony Burgess
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From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.
Kevin Bacon
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles Evans Hughes
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We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?
David Bezmozgis
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Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
Kathryn Harrison
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.
Frank Zappa
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Jim Elliot
