Brennan Manning Quotes
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.
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People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.
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A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
