Brennan Manning Quotes

For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!"

Brennan Manning

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• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
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• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
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• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
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• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Father
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

  

  Carey Lowell
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• I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Men
  • She
  • Day

• My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Car
  • Air
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• I am frequently attacked.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Attacked

• I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Long
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• There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Same

• It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Law

• Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Path

• There are many creeds but only one faith. Creeds may change, develop, and grow flat, while the substance of faith remains the same in all ages. The overgrowth of creed may bring about the disintegration of that substance. The proper relation is a minimum of creed and a maximum of faith.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...

  

  Margaret Fuller
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• I'm standing on the bridge; I'm waiting in the dark. I thought that you'd be here by now. There's nothing but the rain, no footsteps on the ground. I'm listening, but there's no sound. Isn't anyone trying to find me? Won't somebody come take me home?

  

  Avril Lavigne
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• We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Faith
  • Mistake

• My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Faith
  • Foundation
  • Proposition

• Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Friends
  • Mean
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• For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!"

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Spirit