Brennan Manning Quotes

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Brennan Manning

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• 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

• When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Best
  • Thought
  • First

• 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

• I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • High
  • Shoes

• 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 love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Singing

• If we can make great games for PS3 players... how many PS3 players are out there? If we can make great games for everybody, that's a much bigger service. There's no reason I shouldn't do that.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Great
  • Service

• In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

  

  James Fallows
  • Time
  • World

• I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Risk

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

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Exposure