Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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«And the European one?»
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Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.
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The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.
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We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.
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I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why it should be true That I get a kick out of you?
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.
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I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of my husbands has ever seen me put my face on.
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Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.
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I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I don’t want to lose my memories. Don’t make me forget. I would rather die as Elena, than live as a shadow.
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We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
