Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.

Elisabeth Elliot

• Attention
• Wife
• Reason
• Promise
• Commitment
• Marry

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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Like
  • Social
  • Autism

• Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Important
  • Long
  • Innovation

• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Project
  • Committing

• You have to be proud of who you are.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Proud
  • Who

• Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Democracy
  • Bring
  • Central

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Back
  • Go

• We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Her

• I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Live

• When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Character

• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Blood
  • Name
  • Differences

• TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • Finding
  • Indians

• If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Against this current conception of religion the prophets insisted on a right life as the true worship of God. Morality to them was not merely a prerequisite of effective ceremonial worship. They brushed sacrificial ritual aside altogether as trifling compared with righteousness, nay, as a harmful substitute and a hindrance for ethical religion.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Same

• Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

  

  Peter Barris
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Broadly speaking, the problems with the Espionage Act are that it is hopelessly broad. And we tend to use the Espionage Act - we think about the Espionage Act as forbidding disclosures of classified information. That's not really what the statute says. What the statute talks about is information related to the national defense.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Problems
  • Information
  • Defense

• I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Attention

• Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Attention
  • Sacrifice

• Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Attention
  • Wife
  • Reason