Brennan Manning Quotes

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Brennan Manning

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• 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

• My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

  

  Jonas Mekas
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Unique

• Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

  

  Emily Chang
  • World
  • Black
  • Forever

• Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

  

  Mario Teguh
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Failure

• I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

  

  Jean Kerr
  • Great
  • Success
  • Failure

• There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Real
  • Question
  • Effort

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

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Exposure