Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Acting is in your soul.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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Is it two? Three? Leave a good tip, Imma blow all my money and don't give two shits.
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I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
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Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
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I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway.
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I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.
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Max cuffed his brother good-naturedly on the ear as River slid in past him and bent to kiss Sophia on the cheek. “Hello, are you sure you’re with the right brother?” Sophia had never had a younger sibling. But this man with his laughing eyes and bright smile... “Are you making me an offer?
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.
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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
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The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.
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Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.
