Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

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• Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Help
  • Soul

• My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Hat
  • Off

• Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • May
  • Together
  • Man

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

  

  Beah Richards
  • Life
  • Live
  • Challenge

• There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Musicians

• Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • You
  • Transition
  • Another

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

  

  Edith Widder
  • World
  • Job
  • Water

• I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • End
  • Start

• I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • VIolin
  • Liking

• That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Great
  • Know
  • Apple

• If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Different
  • School
  • Jump

• I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live

• I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Country
  • Friends

• Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

  

  John Holdren

• Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Evil
  • Potential

• We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up
  • Energy

• There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

  

  Benvenuto Cellini
  • Family
  • Ancient
  • Chief

• Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Price