Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • Better
  • Rich

• I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Career

• This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Sick

• I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Good
  • Job
  • Afraid

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Necessarily

• Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Work
  • You
  • Copy

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Job
  • Working
  • Open

• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Man
  • Hate

• When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Me
  • Books
  • Profound

• If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Athlete

• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Man
  • Small

• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • People
  • History
  • Nice

• There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Good
  • Purpose

• It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Time
  • Government
  • Nation

• Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Nice
  • Opposition
  • Bone

• No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

  

  Umar
  • God
  • Future
  • Worry

• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Great
  • Soul

• We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Eye
  • Aliens

• When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Soul
  • Pain
  • Garden

• The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Eye
  • Glory
  • Trusted