I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.
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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