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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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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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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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 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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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
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Our challenge here today is to help those in need until their need is over, ... For the next number of months, when those in the national news media are gone, when those who came to look and to help have gone onto other challenges, we will be here, together, as an Oklahoma family.
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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.
