We find a naked body every bit as beautiful as a clothed one. If they came only out of lust, we have...
ELISABETH LEOPOLD Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about
ALDO LEOPOLD Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is eco...
ALDO LEOPOLD We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty...
ALDO LEOPOLD Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his...
ALDO LEOPOLD To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering
ALDO LEOPOLD What is a hobby anyway? Where is the line of demarcation between hobbies and ordinary normal pursuit...
ALDO LEOPOLD The thumb does not have very a important role when shifting from one position to another. There is t...
LEOPOLD AUER There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast ...
ALDO LEOPOLD We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community t...
ALDO LEOPOLD The shrinkage in the flora is due to a combination of clean-farming, woodlot grazing, and good roads...
ALDO LEOPOLD The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically ri...
ALDO LEOPOLD The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and...
ALDO LEOPOLD One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the ...
ALDO LEOPOLD A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic communi...
ALDO LEOPOLD Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
ALDO LEOPOLD A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disa...
ALDO LEOPOLD Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is econ...
ALDO LEOPOLD In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of thes...
ALDO LEOPOLD To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
ALDO LEOPOLD Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his ...
ALDO LEOPOLD He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.
LEOPOLD TREPPER All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.
LEOPOLD SENGHOR On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.
LEOPOLD TREPPER To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
LEOPOLD STEIN Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is econ...
ALDO LEOPOLD All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enou...
ALDO LEOPOLD Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trade...
ALDO LEOPOLD As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before ...
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI We're not working as a cohesive group of five, including Kipper,
JORDAN LEOPOLD That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected...
ALDO LEOPOLD I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
ALDO LEOPOLD Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through suc...
ALDO LEOPOLD My hope is that somebody will look at it at some level and say let's rethink this.
DAVID LEOPOLD To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul, hope you like what you see
ALDO LEOPOLD Wherever something is wrong, something is too big. If the stars in the sky or the atoms of uranium d...
LEOPOLD KOHR To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—...
ALDO LEOPOLD A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a ...
ALDO LEOPOLD On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI Usually in these cases, there's always two sides to it. In this case there seems to be one thing the...
DAVID LEOPOLD Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his ...
ALDO LEOPOLD A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide t...
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land...
ALDO LEOPOLD Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness trave...
ALDO LEOPOLD Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in e...
ALDO LEOPOLD Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocati...
ALDO LEOPOLD We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty...
ALDO LEOPOLD When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as ...
ALDO LEOPOLD The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of who...
ALDO LEOPOLD Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this re...
ALDO LEOPOLD Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we ...
ALDO LEOPOLD On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clang...
ALDO LEOPOLD No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never...
ALDO LEOPOLD Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
ALDO LEOPOLD We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
ALDO LEOPOLD A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his si...
ALDO LEOPOLD The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
ALDO LEOPOLD Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?
ALDO LEOPOLD Thinking like a Mountain
We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in ...
ALDO LEOPOLD Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that ...
ALDO LEOPOLD Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
ALDO LEOPOLD Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield ...
ALDO LEOPOLD To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valu...
ALDO LEOPOLD One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much o...
ALDO LEOPOLD This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mist...
ALDO LEOPOLD There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast ...
ALDO LEOPOLD Becoming serious is a grievous fault in hobbyists. It is an axiom that no hobby should either seek o...
ALDO LEOPOLD The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive fa...
ALDO LEOPOLD In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
ALDO LEOPOLD It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain t...
ALDO LEOPOLD Unsportsmanlike predator-killing is always rationalized as defence of property—usually someone els...
ALDO LEOPOLD Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunte...
ALDO LEOPOLD Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building rec...
ALDO LEOPOLD I know it's hard to pass these bills, but when he was sitting in jail in December and they were fill...
DAVID LEOPOLD Nobody's made a determination that he's to be deported. There is no deportation order.
DAVID LEOPOLD He hasn't had a hit song since 1966 with 'An Old-Fashioned Wedding,' but these days you can't go to ...
DAVID LEOPOLD In cases where people are requesting asylum based on politics or a particular social group, he's ver...
DAVID LEOPOLD The judge is looking at the evidence. That is the significant thing that happened today.
DAVID LEOPOLD I'm feeling pretty good at the moment. This is big. They had the papers to move him. I understand th...
DAVID LEOPOLD What's the point. Is this making our country safer? Is this making our country more secure?
DAVID LEOPOLD Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is econ...
ALDO LEOPOLD ...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the est...
ALDO LEOPOLD The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it
LEOPOLD ZUNZ There will be a whole lot of flag-waving.
SIMON LEOPOLD The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.
LEOPOLD TREPPER I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you rec...
ELISABETH FOLEY 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 Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insa...
JENNIFER ELISABETH 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 For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, l...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
JENNIFER ELISABETH I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.
ELISABETH SHUE What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush t...
ELISABETH BISHOP Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watch...
ELISABETH BISHOP The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that t...
ELISABETH BISHOP I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened ...
ELISABETH MOSS I love Central Park. I feel like I am somewhere else.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd,...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able ...
ELISABETH SHUE You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You h...
ELISABETH ROHM Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities ever...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK I do splurge on diaper bags. I have a half dozen in different colors and styles.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.
ELISABETH ROHM I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave...
ELISABETH ROHM I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager bea...
ELISABETH ROHM One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif...
ELISABETH ELLIOT You and a select few of your ancestors, including your mother, are special protectors of your realm,...
ELLIE ELISABETH 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 If ever I was running, it was towards you.
JENNIFER ELISABETH Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and nee...
JENNIFER ELISABETH She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes.
ELISABETH AGRO It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own?...
ELISABETH AGRO This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thin...
ELISABETH AGRO I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought abo...
ELISABETH AGRO There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're pl...
ELISABETH AGRO I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about...
ELISABETH AGRO A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way...
ELISABETH FOLEY Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apar...
ELISABETH FOLEY I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that...
ELISABETH SHUE Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand...
ELISABETH FOLEY We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...
ELISABETH FOLEY True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even ...
ELISABETH FOLEY 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 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 When life gives you boredom, give it your insanity.
NOELLE ELISABETH I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting char...
ELISABETH MOSS It leaves the underlying momentum strong.
ELISABETH DENISON 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 This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefor...
ELISABETH 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 'We didn't have enough money, or horses of our own I would take an old saddle and put it on a swing ...
ELISABETH SHUE Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ...
ELISABETH 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 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 This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
ELISABETH SHUE I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like H...
ELISABETH MOSS Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own ...
ELISABETH EAVES We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up un...
ELISABETH EAVES Yeah, it was so good. I was so-o-o mean to her before [in Hide and Seek ]. Man, I felt bad because I...
ELISABETH SHUE She reminds you of the joyfulness that you felt when you first started and reminds you to never let ...
ELISABETH SHUE She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playful...
ELISABETH SHUE After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's ...
ELISABETH SHUE I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, o...
JENNIFER ELISABETH This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yo...
JENNIFER ELISABETH [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 understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can h...
ELISABETH SHUE He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to...
ELISABETH SUSSMAN He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to...
ELISABETH SUSSMAN Part of the challenge in this country is encouraging people to save enough for retirement, but an eq...
ELISABETH GEHL Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s...
ELISABETH ELLIOT We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevi...
ELISABETH ELLIOT When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Hi...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT