Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.
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I am happy with what I've done.
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If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
