Jim Elliot Quotes

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• 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
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Successful

• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Happy
  • Benefits
  • Recognition

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Person
  • Emotions
  • Optimistic

• I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Music
  • Different

• If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Find

• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Rest
  • Started
  • Eleven

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Govern

• If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Doing

• I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Think
  • Pen

• As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Culture
  • Christian
  • Lies

• You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • High

• People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Design
  • Building

• For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Prayer