Brennan Manning Quotes

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

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• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • American
  • America
  • High

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Enemy
  • Idea
  • Something

• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Determination

• My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Father

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Say

• We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • You
  • Sunday
  • Saying

• I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

  

  Imelda May
  • Know
  • Me
  • Lost

• So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sometimes
  • Worry
  • Start

• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • You
  • Need

• Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Work
  • Day
  • Joy

• My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Understanding
  • Generation
  • Aids

• Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Men
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

  

  Platon Antoniou
  • Up
  • Power
  • Remember

• A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.

  

  Daina Chaviano
  • God
  • Man
  • Play

• > (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Ugly
  • Guilty

• In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Virtue
  • Love Is