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

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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