Donald Miller Quotes

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

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• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

  

  Xenophon
  • Great
  • Running
  • Horse

• In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Players
  • Jazz

• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Problems

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

• We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Want
  • Like
  • Where

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

  

  Dan Pink
  • School
  • Law
  • Class

• I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • House
  • Moment
  • White

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • People
  • Live
  • Soul

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Tired

• Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

  

  Lewis Cass
  • Great
  • God

• In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. Bernard Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Mean
  • Sometimes
  • Made

• My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.

  

  Bonnie Hammer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Experience
  • Building
  • University

• If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Beautiful