Brennan Manning Quotes

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

Brennan Manning

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• All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Work
  • Love
  • Human

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Deep
  • Balance
  • Theatre

• When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Vision

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Vision
  • Sun

• The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Amazing
  • Down
  • Turn

• 'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • She

• I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Together

• So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.

  

  Steven Hatfill
  • Home
  • Serious
  • Fact

• You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

  

  Bruce Weber
  • Wonder

• People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down.

  

  Charlie Kimball
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Done
  • Power
  • Action

• I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Power
  • Affection
  • Seized