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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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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The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
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After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.
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You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.
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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.
