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Jim Elliot Quotes

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 8, 1927 - January 8, 1956

Topics

God Desert You Seeing Done Will

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

Jesse Eisenberg

Job People Weird You Be True Acting

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

I Am People Mind Speak I Can Going

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

War Country Innocent Go Become

America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

America Become Manufacturing Nation

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

Good Good Things Start Strangers Lot

For most of America's history, people typically aspired to acquire 'a competency' rather than great riches. A competency meant the ability to comfortably sustain a household without depending on others. 'Competence' also meant being capable and reliable. The American Dream was that people who worked hard and capably could support their families.

Stephanie Coontz

History Great American Dream Support

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Patience Music Character Habit Fake

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Money Vegas Act Make How

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

Father Mother Music People Me Up

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.

Life Great Me Fat My Life Body

We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands.

Mohammad bin Salman

Alone World Opportunities More Four

What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.

Technology Power Book Hand See Than

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