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'm a political conservative.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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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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You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
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The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.
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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.
