Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
-
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
-
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
-
Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.
-
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
-
She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.
-
I'm only a poor corrupt official.
-
I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
-
Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.
-
I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
-
I told the guys it was like getting a monkey, and then I said a gorilla off our back.
-
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
-
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.
-
I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
-
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
-
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't
-
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
-
Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
