Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
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I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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Together we are building a new Mexico.
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It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
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Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.
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I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.
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Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.
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Sadly, when pastors choose to neglect controversial issues, they do great damage to the spiritual growth of their congregates. We have generations of young people in our churches who simply believe what the world believes on social and moral issues, and they don't think biblically on these matters.
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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
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I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
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And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
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She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'
