Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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One can easily realize God if one is free from guile. Spiritual instruction produces quick results in a guileless heart. Such a heart is like well cultivated land from which all the stones have been removed. No sooner is the seed sown than it germinates. The fruit also appears quickly.
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The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
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I say college football began with Rockne.
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Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.
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All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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New York is a fascinating city. I think it's a very inspiring city, but it's overpowering when you get older. It tires me now. But it's wonderful for young people - very inspiring and full of surprises and full of ideas.
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I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.
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It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
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A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.
