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

• 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

• My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Funny

• Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destructive
  • Nationalism
  • Exclusive

• [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

  

  Rex Stout
  • Surprise
  • Pleasant
  • Pessimist

• Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Jesus
  • Habit
  • Sin

• I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

  

  Agyness Deyn
  • Remember
  • Silence
  • Paris

• A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Silence
  • Persons
  • Secure

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

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Silence
  • Tradition
  • God Gives