Erwin McManus Quotes

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

Erwin McManus

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Find
  • Instinct
  • Notes

• I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Alive
  • Devotion

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Optimistic

• Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Morning
  • Alive

• Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Funny
  • Alive

• What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Wife
  • Natural
  • Instinct

• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Smile
  • Alive

• I have a strong preference for being alive.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Strong
  • Alive
  • Preference

• I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Value

• Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Alive

• I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Fighting
  • Film
  • Struggle

• But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

  

  Olive Ann Burns
  • Different
  • Alive
  • Homesickness

• When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Alive
  • Capable

• Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

  

  William Cowper
  • Habit
  • Alive
  • Strive

• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  

  Gary Fisher
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Break

• Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Alive
  • Instinct