Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Action
  • Military
  • Bank

• Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Question
  • Books
  • Wonderful

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Devil
  • Him
  • Prepare

• Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Home
  • Stop

• Quite often in negotiations people start out by saying no and then they turn around, ... A few more days and perhaps we'll see some movement.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Movement
  • Negotiations

• Death should take more care with his paperwork.

  

  A. Lee Martinez
  • Death

• Maintain an attitude of anticipating success!

  

  Tae Yun Kim
  • Success
  • Attitude

• [On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

  

  Dagmar Godowsky
  • Snow

• Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Men
  • Writing

• But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Support
  • Government
  • Principles

• Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Money
  • War
  • Depression

• No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko

• Do the thousands of people that Donald Trump have stiffed over the course of your business not deserve some kind of apology from someone who has taken their labor, taken the goods that they produced, and then refused to pay them?

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Business
  • Labor

• The truth needs so little rehearsal.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Needs
  • Rehearsal

• Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Poetry
  • Needs
  • Breathing

• We are kids. The only difference is the toy we have.

  

  Pablo Larrain
  • Kids

• Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Needs
  • Remind