Top 100 Elliot Quotes
#1. I'd love to open a restaurant that changes every month. One month it would be a mom and bar spaghetti-and-meatball, Red Sox place, and the next it would be a British pub, and everyone gets in a fight.
Graham Elliot
#2. He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers, then shook his head. "I wouldn't have let you get away. I was angry and I acted foolishly, but I would have gotten you back. Whatever it took, I would have gotten you back. You're my answer, Zoe. You're my salvation.
Elliot Mabeuse
#3. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson
#4. Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.
Elisabeth Elliot
#5. I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
Ben Elliot
#6. When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
Cass Elliot
#7. I'm in love with 'pure' flavors, things that are natural and delicious, minimally fussed with, that showcase the season.
Graham Elliot
#8. Touch speaks to us on levels, so much deeper than the intellect can comprehend, going to the root of us, to levels of comprehension we can't ignore.
Elliot Mabeuse
#10. In war, God is always on your side, no matter which side you're on. God is invincible, but one side always loses. Nobody seems to see the fallacy in this.
Elliot MacDonald
#11. When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she turned to it and opened her bodice, letting it caress and kiss her breasts, for she never knew when it might be him, and still she wanted nothing more than to please him utterly.
Elliot Mabeuse
#12. It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
Elisabeth Elliot
#13. There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
Elisabeth Elliot
#14. Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
Ben Elliot
#15. The best word to describe Albert Belle during the mid-1990s is "prolific." The man could flat hit.
Tucker Elliot
#16. You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
Hugh Elliot
#17. It feels like last week, but in fact we're now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud ... and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan today who were in fourth grade on 9/11.
Tucker Elliot
#18. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.
Elliot Mabeuse
#19. Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality. I might have a Scotch to keep me going, but I like to be as awake and as alert as possible.
Elliot Perlman
#20. The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
Elisabeth Elliot
#21. Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
Hugh Elliot
#22. Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
Jim Elliot
#23. Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
Elisabeth Elliot
#24. Oh my, Bryce Elliot Williams! Change back right this instance! You're going to ruin the floors!"
-Amy
Micalea Smeltzer
#25. When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.
Elisabeth Elliot
#26. Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.
Elisabeth Elliot
#27. A life well-lived in the present is all but impossible when you are tethered to your past.
Tucker Elliot
#29. The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.
Elisabeth Elliot
#31. How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
Cass Elliot
#32. The Endgame book was an American soup, if everything can be predicted what's the purpose to read it?
Deyth Banger
#33. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.
Elisabeth Elliot
#34. We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.
Elisabeth Elliot
#35. I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the right way to be in any part of your life.
Ben Elliot
#36. Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.
Elisabeth Elliot
#37. The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
Elisabeth Elliot
#38. A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
Elisabeth Elliot
#39. I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduced himself to somebody and they said, 'Oh, do you know Ben Elliot? I'd really like to meet him.' I remember him ringing me up, really annoyed.
Ben Elliot
#40. You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did
Elliot Perlman
#42. The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse.
Elliot Perlman
#43. There's a reason diehard fans get to the ballpark hours before game time. It's not for better parking. It's not for extra time to find our seats. It's not so we'll have time to down an extra hot dog, heavy on the mustard, prior to the first pitch. It's called BP.
Tucker Elliot
#44. Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Jane Austen
#45. A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
Elisabeth Elliot
#46. You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
Elisabeth Elliot
#47. Cost-effective, attractive to business partners, environmentally friendly, easy access to a wide range of guidance and support - it makes good business sense to implement and maintain a robust and effective environmental management system
Elliot Morley
#48. We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
Elisabeth Elliot
#49. Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused
Elliot Perlman
#50. There are more good people than bad people, and overall there's more that's good in the world than there is that's bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.
Tucker Elliot
#52. No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.
Jim Elliot
#53. It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God
Elisabeth Elliot
#54. I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
Jim Elliot
#55. Learning to pray is learning to trust the wisdom, the power, and the love of our Heavenly Father, always so far beyond our dreams.
Elisabeth Elliot
#56. She's my north star. The shining light I look to when I don't know where I am. And I'm losing her. I'm losing you, and I don't know how to let you go.
Elliot Wake
#57. If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass.
Tucker Elliot
#58. I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.
Elisabeth Elliot
#59. Don't use the buckle," she told him with a laugh, her eyes closed, head bent.
"I haven't beaten a woman with my belt before, Simone. That doesn't mean I don't have any clue about how to do it.
Megan Hart
#60. For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
Ben Elliot
#61. The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.
Elliot Richardson
#62. Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
Missy Elliot
#63. In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.
Tucker Elliot
#64. Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with.
Elliot Mabeuse
#65. My heart was saying, "Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long." The Lord was answering, "I must teach you to long for something better.
Elisabeth Elliot
#66. I think that expression is so great. So I'll look at someone like Prince, and one reason to lose weight is so I can rock that purple velvet outfit with the white frilly shirt.
Graham Elliot
#67. She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.
Megan Hart
#68. Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.
Jim Elliot
#69. A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
Elisabeth Elliot
#70. I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
Elliot Richardson
#72. What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.
Elisabeth Elliot
#73. Wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright...resist the temptation to trifle with other people's feelings.
Elisabeth Elliot
#74. Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
Jim Elliot
#75. I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
Cass Elliot
#76. For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
Jim Elliot
#77. A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Elisabeth Elliot
#78. The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.
Tucker Elliot
#79. She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities.
Jane Austen
#80. 'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.
Eric Fellner
#81. Having the baby changed my life a lot. I don't want to go on the road.
Cass Elliot
#82. He is always doing something
the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.
Elisabeth Elliot
#83. I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They'll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.
Tucker Elliot
#84. Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions ...
Elisabeth Elliot
#86. You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.
Graham Elliot
#87. Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.
Elliot Perlman
#88. The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You're flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.
Tucker Elliot
#89. It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
Elisabeth Elliot
#90. I couldn't have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!
Jim Elliot
#91. I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
Elisabeth Elliot
#92. He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.
Elisabeth Elliot
#93. Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.
Jim Elliot
#94. There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, "why?" is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.
Elisabeth Elliot
#95. I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.
Missy Elliot
#96. I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
Elliot Richardson
#97. The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.
Tucker Elliot
#98. Some people have a heart to do evil and they don't care if you're Muslim or Christian.
Tucker Elliot
#99. Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
Elisabeth Elliot
#100. For a week, you carried my short story all folded up in your jeans pocket, said you felt sorry for the main character in it. That main character was me, of course.
Franki Elliot
