Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Woman

• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rest

• I try to only go out twice a week. More than that would leave me feeling pretty run down.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Understanding

• I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

  

  Margaret Qualley

• I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

  

  Joanne Woodward
  • Risk

• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  

  Meg Rosoff
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• 'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Black
  • Joy

• No country would suffer more than Britain from an international trade war, since we depend more on world trade than any of our competitors. That is why we cannot accept the proposal made in some quarters that we should seek to solve our problems through imposing import controls for a long period over a whole range of manufactured consumer goods.

  

  Denis Healey
  • World
  • Long
  • Country

• Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Destroyed

• Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Internet
  • Position
  • Potential

• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.

  

  E. T. Whittaker
  • Nature
  • Energy
  • Action

• Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Maturity
  • Shelter
  • VIstas

• In the NBA, there's always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn't have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Guy
  • Jump
  • Fake

• The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • Time
  • Book
  • Free

• When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Maturity
  • Starts
  • Willingness