Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

What grieves me is that I am constantly forgetting to recognize God’s hand in the little, everyday trials of life, and instead of receiving them as from Him, find fault with the instruments by which He sends them.

Elizabeth Prentiss

• Life
• Instruments
• Forgetting
• Grieves
• God's Hand

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• These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • May
  • Success

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • More
  • Three
  • Days

• I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Slavery
  • Old

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Great
  • Today
  • Energy

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Religious
  • Liberty

• I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Lie

• My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Ego

• How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

  

  Dan Burton
  • Food
  • Drug
  • Safe

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Know
  • Eyes

• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn’t want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Life
  • Real
  • Teacher

• I just feel like giving people a voice to something.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Giving
  • Voice

• Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society

• You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Choices

• What grieves me is that I am constantly forgetting to recognize God’s hand in the little, everyday trials of life, and instead of receiving them as from Him, find fault with the instruments by which He sends them.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Life
  • Instruments
  • Forgetting