I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.


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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