Jim Elliot Quotes

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

Jim Elliot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeHomeTimeWordsSpeakThink

All my life, I've been winning, ok?

John Catsimatidis

LifeWinningMy LifeBeenOK

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

Robert Gottlieb

GreatKnowCompanyAlwaysDancers

While I don't necessarily believe the cliche that 'everything happens for a reason,' I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I've experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life's challenges.

Angelica Ross

LifeTodayChallengeWomanI AmMe

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Jeff Bezos

DiscoveryAlwaysSerendipityInvolved

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

Simon Rich

FunnyDayWritingEnd Of The DayEnd

Listen, sharing my life with people is just part of my daily routine.

Rita Ora

LifeDailyPeopleMy LifeRoutine

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

Romola Garai

LifeRestMy LifePrettyBeing

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

Chris Stapleton

TimeWritingCountryEdgeKnowPop

Only the mad girls chase me, I think.

Prince William

MeThinkMadChaseOnlyI Think

The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that's what the stage is incredible for because it makes you live other lives. It makes you experience other emotions. It makes you feel more beautiful or more alone or more angry. It makes you feel much more, more, more.

Sylvie Guillem

LiveAloneBeautifulExperienceYou

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.

Peter York

ReadingFeelEnoughYouKnowRun

I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

Selma Blair

FamilyThreeSisters

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