Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.Elisabeth Elliot
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
Lars von Trier -
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis -
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine -
I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
Malin Akerman -
By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
Hans Vestberg -
I like heels and make-up.
Victoria Pendleton
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.
Jackie Collins -
We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.
Lalla Ward -
I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
Lara Stone -
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick -
We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
Prince Charles -
I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.
Alessandro Michele
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Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
Margaret Heffernan -
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.
John Sladek -
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
Christian Nestell Bovee -
You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.
Bernard Cornwell -
Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
Eddie Condon
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I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
Marlene Dumas -
(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.
Valerie Martin -
Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.
Cyrus Vance -
The theory must not contradict empirical facts.
Albert Einstein -
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
Elisabeth Elliot