Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'

  

  Cam
  • Good
  • Job
  • Parents

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Support
  • Running
  • Problem

• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • High
  • Alone

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Myself
  • More
  • Iceland

• An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Men
  • Virtue
  • Conscience

• Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Like
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Bitter

• Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge

• For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Family
  • Learning

• I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Swimming

• Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.

  

  Deborah Meier
  • Children
  • Critics
  • Seriously

• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• I have to say I really was surprised on my first world tour. It was amazing to see what we've always dreamed of, right before our eyes.

  

  G-Dragon
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Amazing

• I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Children
  • Son Of God
  • Testify