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I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educat...
ELLIOT COWAN

Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a d...
ELLIOT COWAN

At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, ...
ELLIOT COWAN

Counseling is a central issue, so HIV-infected people need to understand what HIV means, and recomme...
ELLIOT COWAN

Concerns have been expressed over the years about the psychological effects of receiving a positive ...
ELLIOT COWAN

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to m...
ELLIOT COWAN

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was...
ELLIOT COWAN

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own li...
ELLIOT COWAN

The most difficult task facing us today is to persuade the person who is enjoying Christian culture ...
GODFREY COWAN

We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbre...
NOAH COWAN

Goaltending was solid throughout the game and after the first period we started playing hockey like ...
MIKE COWAN

I'm sure he'd like to think he's the underdog. I've never seen a team 20-0 be the underdog before.
HEATH COWAN

She's gone from crutches to a knee stabilizer to nothing (Wednesday). So she's in good spirits.
HEATH COWAN

Only the deceased have the knowledge of life.
JOSEPH COWAN

I don't want to diminish the collection at all, because there are some good things here. But I think...
WES COWAN

We're never going to secure the Net if we don't air and criticize vulnerabilities.
DAVID COWAN

Whilst the Dragons remain committed to getting the best coach we can, it's important to state that M...
MARK COWAN

This is the result of plenty of advance publicity and the fact that people in Cincinnati just love M...
WES COWAN

The size of this crowd is tribute to Marge Schott. I would be surprised if most of the people here d...
WES COWAN

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are ...
TOM COWAN

Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN

You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN

They'll do anything to provoke the stars. They really are stalkers.
WARREN COWAN

We know Luke's excited about the prospect of playing with the Dragons, and it's really just a matter...
MARK COWAN

There's no way to say what this stuff is going to bring. All it takes is two people to want somethin...
WES COWAN

Marge's baseball collection is broad and eclectic.
WES COWAN

The collection probably has a lot of sentimental value to people. The people from Cincinnati and the...
WES COWAN

There's no personal history that's attached to any of this. Whatever personal history was attached t...
WES COWAN

We are going to have food, games, toys and clothing for the evacuees,
DOROTHY COWAN

They called and asked 'Why don't we have a Cops and Kids Day and combine it with an appreciation pro...
DOROTHY COWAN

All of (Selma's) area businesses have been good about donating services or giving us money to help w...
DOROTHY COWAN

He's a good God,
DOROTHY COWAN

It's the availability to get the land on good-size parcels. There's a lot of acreage in Lehigh Acres...
DENNIS COWAN

Once one gated community comes in, others follow.
DENNIS COWAN

Within an hour and a half, the reservations were taken up.
DENNIS COWAN

Take it easy, sit by the fire and cook a steak tonight.
DICK COWAN

Snow is no problem to drive on. Ice is out of control.
DICK COWAN

We wanted to be here for the first snow at our new house.
DICK COWAN

Our kids wanted to get the ball on the rim so early, they didn't take good shots. Some of them were ...
HEATH COWAN

We were down 18 going into the fourth quarter. We had no business being in the basketball game. We g...
HEATH COWAN

That was the difference in the basketball game.
HEATH COWAN

Scoring-wise that's a little high for [Paradis], but the shots were there and she was making them. T...
HEATH COWAN

I wasn't pleased with our defense in the first half and I challenged them at halftime to come out an...
HEATH COWAN

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.
HEATH COWAN

The kids did a great job. We were in foul trouble the whole game. We had other kids stepping up and ...
HEATH COWAN

It's great to see the guys win because they worked hard to get to this point.
LARRY COWAN

We're running out of inventory. Most the people are looking for a building that will produce income....
LARRY COWAN

I just keep adding another layer of security to try and stop them. It may come down to me getting a ...
LARRY COWAN

Our penalty killing in this series has been extremely good.
LARRY COWAN

They were tight games and this series is a long way from being over.
LARRY COWAN

A good 90 to 85 percent of residents of the county have let it be known that they do not favor count...
JOE COWAN

I support those 100 percent.
JOE COWAN

If they can't agree on it, the commissioners have a right to pull it out of there and do whatever we...
JOE COWAN

This is a huge win for the Wildcats. These girls are a very competitive group of young athletes who ...
MIKE COWAN

The Festival has been a long time supporter of her extraordinary career and she has been a wonderful...
NOAH COWAN

It's very hard, very sad. This wasn't easy. This was a different kind of game, different from the re...
RAVEN COWAN

They fool themselves on the truly addictive nature of nicotine. They think they can quit at any time...
STAN COWAN

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
JANE ELLIOT

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ...
JANE ELLIOT

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.
GRAHAM ELLIOT

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative proce...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongs...
ELLIOT ACKERMAN

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in nee...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
ELLIOT PAUL

What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
EBENEZER ELLIOT

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other
WALTER ELLIOT

As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you do...
JANE ELLIOT

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
JIM ELLIOT

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
WALTER ELLIOT

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act a...
JIM ELLIOT

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
JIM ELLIOT

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you p...
JANE ELLIOT

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.
JIM ELLIOT

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails fr...
JIM ELLIOT

The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pio...
JIM ELLIOT

Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems...
JIM ELLIOT

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

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, no...
JIM ELLIOT

No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God ma...
JIM ELLIOT

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving ...
JIM ELLIOT

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
JIM ELLIOT

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate...
JIM ELLIOT

Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to...
JIM ELLIOT

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time...
JIM ELLIOT

Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.
JIM ELLIOT

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgat...
JIM ELLIOT

How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is...
JIM ELLIOT

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to ...
JIM ELLIOT

I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs sti...
JIM ELLIOT

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
JIM ELLIOT

I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is w...
JIM ELLIOT

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It co...
JIM ELLIOT

Wherever you are - be all there.
JIM ELLIOT

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying...
JIM ELLIOT

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
WALTER ELLIOT

Over time, this type of service is likely to be absorbed by the larger vendors.
BERN ELLIOT

This is the new dial tone. The basic customer-service model today is broken; for most customers, it'...
BERN ELLIOT

We believe [speech] is ready for successful deployment and offering clear, tangible benefits today.
BERN ELLIOT

Because of its strong relationship with some of the carriers, as well as a relationship with Microso...
BERN ELLIOT

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd,...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to ...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. N...
CASS ELLIOT

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it...
JANE ELLIOT

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great ...
BEN ELLIOT

I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduc...
BEN ELLIOT

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but wha...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Jesus never pussyfooted
ELISABETH ELLIOT

A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the w...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I'm not curing cancer or running a small county. I haven't developed a greener car. I just p...
JANE ELLIOT

In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has ce...
ELLIOT ACKERMAN

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun....
GRAHAM ELLIOT

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like...
GRAHAM ELLIOT

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELLIOT

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present...
CASS ELLIOT

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
CASS ELLIOT

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't son...
CASS ELLIOT

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
CASS ELLIOT

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what...
CASS ELLIOT

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
CASS ELLIOT

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I...
CASS ELLIOT

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it B...
CASS ELLIOT

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opi...
CASS ELLIOT

Honesty is all you need.
CASS ELLIOT

He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.
JIM ELLIOT

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The man who will not act until he knows all will never ...
JIM ELLIOT

Continuing a short series on forgiveness: "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (P...
JIM ELLIOT

Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equ...
JIM ELLIOT

Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone ...
ELLIOT PERLMAN

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's ...
CASS ELLIOT

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent ...
THOMAS ELLIOT

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love whi...
JIM ELLIOT

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how cl...
ELLIOT PERLMAN

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has vi...
ELLIOT MINTZ

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
JIM ELLIOT

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equ...
JANE ELLIOT

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.
GRAHAM ELLIOT

Barbecue is the good old technique of people making a fire and putting some stuff over the top - I m...
GRAHAM ELLIOT

Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
BEN ELLIOT

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those ...
JANE ELLIOT

Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
BEN ELLIOT

450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If...
JANE ELLIOT

If I had to pick three overall areas: civil rights, access to justice and, I think, privacy.
ELLIOT MINCBERG

I think that for me, growing up, my dad was in the Navy; we went all over the world. I love things t...
GRAHAM ELLIOT

Both, needless to say, are thrilled.
ELLIOT MINTZ

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lectu...
ELLIOT PERLMAN

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
JIM ELLIOT

God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find rest nowhere but in...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Kosher salt, eggs and flour. These are the building blocks of everything. Kosher salt, above and bey...
GRAHAM ELLIOT

It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man.
ELLIOT MINTZ

I've known Paris and worked with her, and the kind of person that was described on the stand this af...
ELLIOT MINTZ

If this results in Mr. Quintana having to have a distance between himself and Paris Hilton, she's de...
ELLIOT MINTZ

The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people u...
ELLIOT MINTZ

She has gone through her share of public embarrassment. This becomes yet another one of those moment...
ELLIOT MINTZ

The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a...
ELLIOT MINTZ

At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim. She's going t...
ELLIOT MINTZ

It would be in the category of weeks as opposed to months.
ELLIOT MINTZ

I don't see what contribution, if any, she's going to be able to make in that case.
ELLIOT MINTZ

We wish to make it perfectly clear to anyone who elects to purchase or publish any of Paris Hilton's...
ELLIOT MINTZ

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Str...
GRAHAM ELLIOT

It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believe...
JIM ELLIOT

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the ...
JIM ELLIOT

God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him
JIM ELLIOT

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
JIM ELLIOT

Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usu...
JIM ELLIOT

I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the ...
GRAHAM ELLIOT

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to who...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and materna...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that ...
GRAHAM ELLIOT

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your ad...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefor...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Oh Angus,” she moaned. “Can’t you just use your…you know…your powers to clean this up?” ...
ELLIOT MABEUSE

When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she t...
ELLIOT MABEUSE

And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta...
ELLIOT MABEUSE

He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne k...
ELLIOT MABEUSE

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
BEN ELLIOT

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are alway...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The will of God is sweet tonight, altogether ‘good and acceptable and perfect.’ The considerate ...
JIM ELLIOT

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!

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