Brennan Manning Quotes

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

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• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Life
  • American
  • Small

• 'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Wife

• Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• When life gives you lemons you squeeze them, hard. Make invisible ink. Make an acid poison. Fling it in their eyes.

  

  Austin Grossman
  • Life
  • Eyes

• Life is about family and technology.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Life
  • Family
  • Technology

• I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Life

• If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Life

• I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mistake

• I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • Life

• I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Life
  • Book
  • Planning

• All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

  

  Jerry Orbach
  • Life
  • Job

• I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Why
  • High
  • Know

• A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• When we started Workday, we were originally very focused on the core HR system. Then we added payroll, and then we got into performance management.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Management

• The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Life
  • Bears
  • Rabbi