Brennan Manning Quotes
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.
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That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.
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I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.
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I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
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My father was released from jail, after more than three years of imprisonment, in 1971. Without wasting any time, he wanted to get engaged in theatre. He asked me to join and also enquired if any of my friends were interested.
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Living on silence,Living by the book.You get it to a scienceOf living on one good look.So put out all the firesAnd blow away the smoke.I'm getting pretty tiredOf living on hope.
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There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.
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The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
