Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
Quotes to Explore
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
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For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.
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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
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I never remember my parents having an argument.
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We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
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Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
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He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
