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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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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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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No actor wants to play to an empty house.
Ian Mckellen
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I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.
Debbie Gibson
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Some men enjoy the constant strifeOf days with work and worry rife,But that is not my dream of life:I think such men are crazy.For me, a life with worries few,A job of nothing much to do,Just pelf enough to see me through:I fear that I am lazy.
James Weldon Johnson
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When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.
Luis Fonsi
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We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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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
