Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
Quotes to Explore
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I love cooking and baking.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
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I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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I'm a huge sushi fan. I have it every couple of days.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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We have not made these choices lightly, Our decision was made in the full seriousness and clear knowledge of what is at stake.
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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Hello, I'm Boy George, and you are watching RBTV. Come out of the closet, all you students - we want you!
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It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.'
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Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
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The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you; it radiates from within you.
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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering...
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Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
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When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.
