Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Means
  • Ambitious
  • Take Care

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Quality

• I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Up
  • Cinema
  • Watching

• To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Power
  • Action
  • Effective

• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Childhood
  • Nobody
  • Where

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Language
  • Laugh

• But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Work
  • Same
  • Crew

• The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Business
  • Control

• You've gotta have a healthy balance of keeping your eye on how much money is in your account and making sure that it can sustain a healthy, happy life.

  

  Tyler Posey
  • Life
  • Money
  • Happy

• When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

  

  David Antin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Experience

• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Life
  • Men
  • Family

• The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Way