Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • Iran
  • West

• I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Up
  • Very

• I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Camera
  • Treat

• I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feel
  • Working
  • Mixing

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Knowledge
  • Pride
  • Temptation

• Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • City
  • Chicago

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Small
  • Still
  • Dragon

• In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • God
  • Me
  • Loved

• I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Long
  • Part
  • Doctor

• If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Choose
  • Ballerina

• I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Value

• Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Universe
  • Politics
  • Worse

• And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Sex

• In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Growing

• No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Marriage
  • Forgiveness
  • Survive