Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• The Lord

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• I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Economics

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Look

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Laughter
  • Applause

• A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Day

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • World
  • Women
  • Kind

• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Great
  • Success

• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Different
  • Character
  • High

• Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

  

  Otis Rush
  • You
  • Nobody
  • Blues

• We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Support
  • Plan
  • Exchange

• That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• 'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Death
  • Hand

• I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Believe
  • Tree

• In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women

• Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• So much has changed since the '70s and '80s when it comes to acting and being in the public eye. We'd go out to a restaurant, and there would be five or six people. Now there's a lot more, plus social media, and this desire to bring other people down.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Desire

• You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • House
  • Energy
  • Cold

• The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Family
  • May
  • History

• The good needs fear no law,It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

  

  Don Marquis

• I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Energy
  • Desire
  • The Lord