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I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT 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 Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
BEN ELLIOT Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
BEN ELLIOT A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at wa...
BEN ELLIOT I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help.
BEN ELLIOT In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the d...
BEN ELLIOT My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding school...
BEN ELLIOT I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it i...
BEN ELLIOT I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.
BEN ELLIOT I have to be passionate about everything I do.
BEN ELLIOT My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had don...
BEN ELLIOT It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within...
BEN ELLIOT I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the rig...
BEN ELLIOT 'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
BEN ELLIOT There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
BEN ELLIOT In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive...
BEN ELLIOT In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.
BEN ELLIOT Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.
BEN ELLIOT If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.
BEN ELLIOT What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill t...
BEN ELLIOT I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment.
BEN ELLIOT Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and e...
BEN ELLIOT I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choi...
BEN ELLIOT I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, ...
BEN ELLIOT

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

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

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

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those ...
JANE 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 Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a d...
ELLIOT COWAN

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

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spiri...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
JIM ELLIOT

When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot...
AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh...
ELLIOT WASHINGTON

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
JIM ELLIOT

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What...
JANE ELLIOT

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ...
JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu...
ELISABETH ELLIOT

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
ELISABETH ELLIOT

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are...
JANE ELLIOT

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

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