Top 100 Elliot's Quotes
#1. Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.
Jane Austen
#2. Ana." Elliot's voice is clipped and quiet, and my scalp prickles ominously. "What's wrong?" "It's Christian. He's not back from Portland." "What? What do you mean?" "His helicopter has gone missing." "Charlie Tango?" I whisper as all the breath leaves my body. "No!
E.L. James
#3. But you-aren't afraid of me?"
Elliot forced himself not to look away. "Oh I am. But for different reasons."
They stared at each other for a long, agonising moment . Elliot's throat went dry.
Astrid Amara
#4. It was dark." "I'd know you in the dark, Tucker." Tucker's eyes flashed up to meet Elliot's. He said curtly. "Yeah. I'd know you too.
Josh Lanyon
#6. The Endgame book was an American soup, if everything can be predicted what's the purpose to read it?
Deyth Banger
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
Elliot Richardson
#15. [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.
Elisabeth Elliot
#16. Luck Doesn't Exist in one's world, its the unexplainable and the unexpected that makes some question fate
Elliot Kesebonye
#17. I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.
Graham Elliot
#18. Sparky Anderson wasn't just my favorite manager ... he was my mom's favorite manager.
Tucker Elliot
#19. T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us.
The sound was brutal.
Final.
S.A. Bodeen
#20. Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.
Jane Elliot
#21. I have this thought, it's horrible, and it makes me sick, but it's true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they're going to name them for men and women who will die in this war.
Tucker Elliot
#22. Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.
Elisabeth Elliot
#23. A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends
Elisabeth Elliot
#24. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.
Tucker Elliot
#25. Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.
Jane Elliot
#26. Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear?
Elisabeth Elliot
#27. Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
Elisabeth Elliot
#28. The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It's been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It's also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn't winning.
Tucker Elliot
#29. Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
Elisabeth Elliot
#30. New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.
Elisabeth Elliot
#31. People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.
Missy Elliot
#32. The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
Elisabeth Elliot
#33. I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
Elliot Cowan
#34. Eve's daughters are as flowers and none can ever say they are through unfolding. And what man can predict the consummate end of such a life when its ultimate center is Sharon's Rose?
Elisabeth Elliot
#35. To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and 'be safe'?" That's the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won't fix what's really going on in our souls.
Elisabeth Elliot
#36. God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.
Elisabeth Elliot
#37. On Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers'.
'Philip Hepuburn worships Sylvia Robson, and finds dishonour' Sylvia Robson worships Charley Kinraid, and finds disillusionment. Charley Kinraid worships himself, and finds a career in the Royal Navy and an heiress who agrees with him.
Lucinda Elliot
#38. but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that's really even more important in the long run than life and death.
Elliot Mabeuse
#39. A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.
Elisabeth Elliot
#40. Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.
Elisabeth Elliot
#41. The last two days I've been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. It's late and dark, but I'm so close now. My uncle died five kilometers from here.
Tucker Elliot
#42. What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
Ben Elliot
#43. Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.
Elliot Aronson
#44. You should know that you're exactly the person you think you are.
Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That's what she was afraid of.
Diana Peterfreund
#45. I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.
Elliot Richardson
#46. There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
Elliot S! Maggin
#47. The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.
Elisabeth Elliot
#48. Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!
Jane Elliot
#49. Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
Ben Elliot
#50. We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It's how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won't let us move forward.
Tucker Elliot
#51. The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
Elisabeth Elliot
#52. I want to take their money and let them build their ship and get off my land. That's all I want."
"Good to know," said a voice above her head.
Elliot and Dee looked up, and there, shadowed against the light from the swinging sun-lamps, stood Kai.
Diana Peterfreund
#53. A smile spread across Amy's face. "Bryce Elliot did you make breakfast for yourself and Sophie?"
"Maybe," he said softly and with more volume, "You'll never get me to tell!
Micalea Smeltzer
#54. I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.
Missy Elliot
#55. ... it's not just for a friend. I mean, Reign is a friend, but... I like him. A lot. And I'd like it if he was more than just a friend.
Parker Elliot
#56. I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending ... But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold on to that in the face of the great burden of experience, which seems to prove otherwise.
Elisabeth Elliot
#57. I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.
Graham Elliot
#58. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
Elliot W. Eisner
#59. For your own security it's imperative you blend in with the native population.
Tucker Elliot
#60. Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.
Elliot Ackerman
#61. It'd be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It's really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how we live shapes and influences the world around us, then we've already lost.
Tucker Elliot
#62. When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that's quite a challenge.
Cass Elliot
#63. Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.
Missy Elliot
#64. At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.
Elliot Cowan
#65. yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..
Elliot Mabeuse
#66. There's an article about Chicago closing dozens of schools and I should probably read it because it seems important and relevant - but to be honest, the headline about the professor in Florida telling students to 'stomp on Jesus' has really got my attention.
Tucker Elliot
#67. It's such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
Hugh Elliot
#68. The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God ... or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
Elisabeth Elliot
#69. When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
Ben Elliot
#70. The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God's.
Elisabeth Elliot
#71. The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
Jim Elliot
#72. I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
James Sellars
#73. Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that up. They try to outdo each other by adding another 10 ounces, so their 80 ounce steak becomes a 90 ounce steak with 10 pounds of mashed potatoes on the side.
Graham Elliot
#74. I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.
Graham Elliot
#75. I loved Super-Monkey; always wanted to do something with him but it never happened.
Elliot S! Maggin
#76. It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.
Jamie Bell
#77. I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.
Missy Elliot
#78. October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench's Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had prepared him for this moment - when the Big Red Machine became a dynasty by defending it's World Championship from the season before.
Tucker Elliot
#79. Aronson's first law:
People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.
Elliot Aronson
#80. If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.
Elisabeth Elliot
#81. Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.
Elisabeth Elliot
#82. Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.
Ben Elliot
#83. I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.
Ben Elliot
#84. Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
Jim Elliot
#85. Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'
Graham Elliot
#86. I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!'
Cass Elliot
#87. Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.
Elisabeth Elliot
#88. I don't tweet or do any other social media, so I don't know what's being said out there.
Jane Elliot
#89. It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.
Ben Elliot
#90. There is a good chance that whatever it is you have to accomplish isn't as bad as you think it's going to be, and if you'd just do it, you could see that not only the task wasn't as daunting as you anticipated it would be, but you could get it done in less time than you thought it would take you.
Graham Elliot
#91. I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It's not so easy, moving forward.
Tucker Elliot
#92. There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
Cass Elliot
#93. I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.
Cass Elliot
#94. America isn't perfect but there's not a better place in the world for people of any faith.
Tucker Elliot
#95. Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.
Will Chase
#96. God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!
Jim Elliot
#97. Kanye West is what happens when you tell average children they're special. Tap,
S. Elliot Brandis
#98. I hope you know Cash is in the kitchen making a to-do list for me and Elliot. You let him play boss for ten minutes and he suddenly thinks he's Hillary Clinton.'~ Leon Montgomery
Destiny Booze
#99. All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
Elliot Ackerman
#100. Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.
Jim Elliot
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