Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
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John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.
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I really believe that women run the art world.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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Jack: I once had a candidate who was deeply concerned about the moral issues raised by myxomatosis. 'Look mate,' I said, 'Rabbits, as far as I'm aware, haven't yet had the vote.' Mind you, I'm an animal lover, too, you know. I've always advocated that the party that introduced family allowances for dogs would sweep the country. And it'll come, it'll come.
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The new government will have three major improvements. It is time to improve the economy in Taiwan.
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But though all the general rules of art are founded only on experience and on the observation of the common sentiments of human nature, we must not imagine, that, on every occasion, the feelings of men will be conformable to these rules.
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There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
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I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
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I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce.
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One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.
