Erwin McManus Quotes

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

Erwin McManus

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• Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Reason

• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• The burden which is well borne becomes light.

  

  Ovid
  • Light
  • Well
  • Burden

• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Right

• I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • She
  • Think

• I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • School
  • Fighting

• What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Desire

• I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Man

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God

• You don't have to be someone you're not to get someone else to like you.

  

  Colbie Caillat

• Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Kids
  • Today

• Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

  

  Aly Raisman
  • Great
  • She
  • Style

• In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Bad

• The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • World
  • Different

• Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Children
  • Risk
  • Miracle

• This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

  

  Susan Polis Schutz
  • Life
  • Want
  • Choose

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • World

• A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Risk
  • Choose
  • Accomplished