Brennan Manning Quotes

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

Brennan Manning

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• Actors are always the last to see what they have created.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Always
  • See
  • Last

• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Government
  • Religion

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Waste
  • Cannot
  • Idleness

• I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Write
  • First
  • Guilty

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Insurance

• If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Sweet
  • Blue

• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value

• Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High

• You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

  

  Dirk Kempthorne
  • History
  • Future
  • Waiting

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Closed
  • Shake Hands
  • Fist

• For decades I've been told by my adversaries in the Religious Right that they only seek a “place at the table” for their Christian worldview—well, their version of Christianity, that is. But evidence has mounted recently that what they really want is something else entirely: to own the table, determine what goes on it, and force-feed everyone the same gruel they consume.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Evidence
  • Christianity
  • Adversaries

• Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Perfect
  • Challenge
  • Silence

• there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Time
  • Night
  • Growing

• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Tradition
  • Advance
  • Seeds

• The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Silence
  • Tradition
  • God Gives