Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
