Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Together
  • Working Together

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • Action
  • Horror

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Race
  • Healing
  • Redemption

• I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • School
  • Home
  • Church

• People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Want
  • Seriously

• Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Decision
  • Moral
  • Choices

• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Die
  • Body
  • Sick

• I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • City

• In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Tree
  • Perception
  • Act

• Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Sometimes
  • Risk
  • Use

• There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Failure

• It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Mediocre
  • Repelled

• There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • World
  • Effort
  • Talent

• I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Humor
  • Constitution
  • Created