Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

Elisabeth Elliot

• Modesty
• Conduct
• Familiarity
• Lewdness

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• I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Death
  • Someone
  • Anybody

• You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • You
  • New

• To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Say
  • Lemons

• A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Game
  • Behavior
  • Violation

• It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Complex
  • Attacks
  • Slogans

• You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Union
  • Negroes

• People talk about the exciting growth prospects in Brazil, China and India, but they forget that the US is not as developed as Western Europe. Plus, 66 million users in India will not have a huge ARPU, but it would be a lot of money in the US.

  

  John Whiting
  • Growth
  • Forget
  • Exciting

• So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Freedom
  • Realized
  • Intolerance

• After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Party
  • Problem

• I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Thinking
  • Growing
  • Responsibility

• Modesty is the highest elegance.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Modesty
  • Elegance

• The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Work
  • Will
  • Evidence

• The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Rule
  • Loves
  • Serve

• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Modesty
  • Conduct
  • Familiarity