Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Control
  • Economy
  • Possible

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • School
  • Family
  • Remember

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Culture

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Want
  • Development
  • Inspire

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• The world is changing very profoundly.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Very
  • Changing

• Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• 'Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Time
  • Attention

• I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Gold

• But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Time
  • Professional

• You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

• What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

  

  James Comey
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Important
  • Decided
  • Findings

• China-Pakistan relationship is indeed special because it transcends the changes of the times and politics and represents a fine example of friendly state-to-state interactions.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Relationship

• There is beauty everywhere. But if I had to narrow it down, I absolutely adore Beyonce. She's the ultimate icon for me. I also love Naomi CampbelI, Jourdan Dunn, Joan Smalls, Daria Werbowy, and Genevieve Nnaji.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • She

• Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Humans
  • Pressure
  • Mutual

• Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • World
  • Mean
  • Magic

• A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Children
  • Battle
  • Calling