Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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• I don't need any nicknames.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Need
  • Any
  • Nicknames

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Hope

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I've always wanted to be a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Singer

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Living
  • London
  • Luxury

• A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Pretty
  • Person
  • Color

• I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Character

• We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Scene

• I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Long
  • Children
  • Television

• For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

  

  Alben W. Barkley
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Profound

• God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • God
  • Growing
  • Goal

• A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Say
  • Saying

• Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

  

  William James
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Risk

• Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

  

  John Calvin
  • Faith
  • Christ
  • Human Senses

• Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Society
  • Science
  • Culture

• The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Friends
  • Sleep
  • Jungle

• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  

  Alfred Delp
  • Today
  • Song
  • Reality

• If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Christ
  • Loss
  • Fortune