Brennan Manning Quotes

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

Brennan Manning

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Peaceful

• But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Time
  • Music
  • Energy

• 'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • South

• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Fall
  • Creative
  • Rain

• I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Kind
  • Actor
  • Robot

• And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Political
  • Education

• It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

  

  Salman Rushdie

• When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

  Jack McDevitt

• *** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'.\nif /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)

  

  Larry Wall
  • Naughty

• I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war...

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • War
  • Attitude

• Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • May
  • Courage

• Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Shoes

• Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Life
  • Job

• I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Parents
  • Learn
  • Grades

• There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • God
  • Search

• All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.’ Yes,’ responded Sancho, ‘but I’ve heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.’ That is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.’ There are many who are errant,’ said Sancho. Many,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but few who deserve to be called knights.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • God
  • Religious
  • Glory

• Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Risk
  • Clarity