Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick
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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity. You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square - But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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Somewhere we went wrong We were once so strong Our love is like a song You can't forget it at all.
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Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
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I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.
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But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.
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I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
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Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.
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You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
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If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
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Which came first - the observer or the particle?
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I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.
