Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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Those who go along get along.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.
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My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.
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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.
