Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • America
  • Today
  • Strong

• People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• 'Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...''(The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, 'Every hotel has Holy Bibles.')

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • God
  • Bible

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Distance

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Life

• The two oldest professions in the world - ruined by amateurs.

  

  Alexander Woollcott
  • World

• God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Religious

• I'm a brand ambassador. I've been a fan of Nip+Fab for a while, so it fit perfectly. I just love their stuff.

  

  Kylie Jenner

• There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

  

  Anohni
  • People
  • Life
  • Attention

• It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Trump

• Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Work
  • Solitude

• Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Silence

• How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Childhood
  • Communication
  • Solitude

• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Humanity

• If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Silence
  • Remedy
  • Modern World

• The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Silence
  • Solitude
  • Noise