Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.Elisabeth Elliot
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
Rand Paul -
They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
Harold H. Greene -
It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
Eddie Money -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans -
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
Vera Wang
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
Barbara Cook -
My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
Naomie Harris -
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson -
I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
Tarsem Singh
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
Felicia Day -
You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.
Olga Kurylenko -
My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
Tayari Jones -
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
Yoko Ono -
I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
Adam Jones -
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
Waylon Jennings -
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon -
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham -
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
Jacques Lacan -
Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.
Elisabeth Elliot