Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.
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I've been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.
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I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that's an amazing feeling.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
