Brennan Manning Quotes

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Brennan Manning

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• Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lazy

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Beautiful
  • Management
  • Anger

• You fall for who the chemistry is with.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • You
  • Fall
  • Chemistry

• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dark
  • Deep
  • Feel

• Talking to Petrus is like punching a bag of sand. 'Are you giving him up?' 'Yes, I am giving him up.'

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Up
  • Giving

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • May

• Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

  

  Anton Seidl
  • Men
  • Art
  • America

• You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • Life
  • God
  • Help

• I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Family
  • Age
  • Political

• In the evening, I use a cleansing oil - coconut oil also works - to remove makeup.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Makeup

• Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.

  

  David Blunkett
  • People
  • Live
  • Age

• Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

  

  Shakira
  • Work
  • Long

• I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

  

  Billy Higgins
  • People

• You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Life
  • Thinking

• When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.

  

  Edward Hoagland
  • Life
  • Risk

• We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Disappointment
  • Measure
  • Neighborhood

• Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Up

• I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

  

  Kanye West
  • Remember
  • Lost

• I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Mood
  • Week
  • Run

• Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Exposure