Jim Elliot Quotes
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!Jim Elliot
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
Sade Adu -
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
Maddie Ziegler -
You never grow out of high school sadly.
Kate Bosworth
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
Dan Gilbert -
I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
Carlene Carter -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.
G. Willow Wilson -
It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
Manal al-Sharif -
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
Nadia Comaneci -
For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
Kat Edmonson -
I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.
Mahershala Ali -
We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
Katha Pollitt -
I adored my father.
Nancy Wake -
All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
Carey Lowell
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America is best when we come together with clear leadership, expertise, and the political will to take on difficult challenges and get things done. No one should ever doubt the strength and resilience of our country and our democracy.
Jamie Dimon -
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.
William Wells Brown -
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.
George W Truett -
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
Jim Elliot