Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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• The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Hero

• I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • World
  • You
  • Talk

• I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Music
  • She

• Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Country
  • Sincere

• I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Style

• I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Believe
  • Gift

• And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Dead
  • Ever
  • Returning

• When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • Mind

• There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• What we demand is integrity and honesty of the research that is rendered.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Integrity
  • Honesty
  • Research

• She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.

  

  Billy Joel
  • She
  • Type
  • Quite

• I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Wish
  • Wishes

• President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Book
  • Amazing
  • Deal

• We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Education
  • Single
  • Economic

• Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.

  

  Christian McBride
  • Music
  • Everyone
  • Jazz

• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Expectations

• There is a plot. What would be the point of just a bunch of things? There's a story, but the story can hold abstractions. I believe in story. I believe in characters. But I believe in a story that holds abstractions, and a story that can be told based on ideas that come in an unconventional way.'

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Believe

• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Poet
  • Romantic Art

• The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Conscious
  • God's Grace
  • Human Frailty