Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Pretty
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• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Know
  • Training
  • Military

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• 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

• You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Children
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • She
  • Way

• There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Opportunity
  • Moral
  • Accomplish

• It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Complex
  • Attacks
  • Slogans

• And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Why
  • Stop

• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • People
  • Fly
  • Vegetarian

• Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Forever
  • Spirit
  • Broken

• I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Business
  • War
  • Friend

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.

  

  Bruno Le Maire
  • Food
  • Example
  • France

• The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Rule
  • Loves
  • Serve