Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.
Quotes to Explore
-
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
-
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
-
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
-
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
-
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
-
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
-
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
-
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
-
I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
-
The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
-
You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
-
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
-
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
-
When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
-
Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
-
I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
-
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
-
We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
-
I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
-
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
-
...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.
-
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
-
Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.
-
Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.
