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

• 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

• 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

• There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Courage

• There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Experience

• Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

  

  Young Thug
  • Long
  • Why
  • Think

• Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

  

  Clair Bee
  • Character
  • Team
  • Player

• If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Water
  • Feelings

• I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker I can be romantic, but not too sickly.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Romantic
  • Boyfriend
  • Joker

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

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Alive
  • Instinct