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Pero hoy la guerra ya no es guerra. Ya no es el hombre quien cuenta, la máquina lo es todo.
— Elias Canetti
The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless — and particularly so as regards the future — has, in our society, become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.
— Elias Canetti
Romani su klinovi koje neki glumac što piše zabija u ?vrstu li?nost svojih ?italaca. Što bol?e prora?una klin i otpor, to ?e ta li?nost ostati raspolu?enija. Trebalo bi da država zabrani romane.
— Elias Canetti
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look "little" or "big.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Money holds terrible power when it is loved.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Just start thanking God in advance because no matter what is about to happen, you already know that God is in charge. You are not adrift in a sea of chaos.
— Elisabeth Elliot
No woman who has not learned to master herself can be trusted to submit willingly to her husband. And that word willingly means that she does not merely resign herself to something she cannot avoid. It means that by an act of her own will she gives herself.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must be the God who holds the smallest circumstance of your life in His hands.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If He is God, He is still in charge.
— Elisabeth Elliot
If the yearning went away, what would we have to offer up to the Lord? Aren't they given to us to offer? It is the control of passion, not it's eradication, that is needed.
— Elisabeth Elliot
We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.
— Elizabeth George