Brennan Manning Quotes
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.Brennan Manning
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I have never believed in the impossible.
Faye Wattleton -
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
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.
Halle Berry -
I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
Karlie Kloss -
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Malcolm de Chazal -
I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
Natalia Kills -
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Daniel Boone -
Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
Adam McKay -
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
Ted Danson -
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.
Orison Swett Marden -
The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
Orison Swett Marden -
Nothing is impossible for pure love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw -
One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.
Alice Thomas Ellis
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Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
Emma Bull -
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
Ernest Hemingway -
My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
Narendra Modi -
Perhaps I shifted from "me" to "we" when I realized that "I" could get a lot more done with "us."
Misha Collins -
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan -
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
Brennan Manning