Donald Miller Quotes

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

Donald Miller

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• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Game
  • Judgment
  • Excitement

• We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Think
  • Financial

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • She
  • Everyday

• I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Legacy
  • Sport
  • Creatively

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Food
  • Always

• It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Couple
  • Loved
  • Follow

• Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Pain

• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Life
  • World
  • Band

• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Up
  • She
  • Truth

• Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Meaningful