Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
Quotes to Explore
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
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There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'
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Now, the smoke fills the airIn this honky-tonk bar.And I'm thinking 'bout where I'd rather be.But I burned all my bridges;I sank all my ships.And I'm stranded at the edge of the sea.
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Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
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With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.
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My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.
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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.
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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
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I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something's possible it doesn't mean it's going to be good to us.
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People love my voice because they say I say what they were thinking but dare not to say because they had a filter or a job.
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Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.
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If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.
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You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.
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I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.
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If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
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You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.
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If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
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We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
