Brennan Manning Quotes

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

Brennan Manning

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Health
  • Struggle

• Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Away
  • Confident
  • Veterans

• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Theatre
  • Very
  • Formal

• In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Women
  • Literature
  • Stage

• If ballots won't work, bullets will.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Work
  • Will
  • Bullets

• I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Work
  • Think
  • Hard Work

• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Friendship
  • Integrity

• In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Design

• Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • May
  • Faith
  • Lost

• 'Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen,'On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;'To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!'Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!'

  

  Clement Clarke Moore
  • Wall

• What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Fire
  • Advice

• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  

  Francis Bacon

• Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

  

  Duke Johnson

• I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • People

• You get so addicted to winning that you don't want that feeling to stop.

  

  Jerry West
  • Feeling
  • Stop
  • Winning

• Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms rather than 'We gotta just punch it week to week, man.' Now they're like, 'What will happen if someone watches the entire show?'

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Live
  • Age

• We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Life
  • Moon

• Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

  

  John L. Lewis
  • Dog
  • Bird

• It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Truth
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Confidence
  • Forgive
  • Inflicted