Erwin McManus Quotes

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Erwin McManus

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• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Harm

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Heroism
  • DNA

• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Face

• People have a good time with all the catch phrases.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Learned

• I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Character
  • Grow

• The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Will
  • Unite

• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Alone
  • Literature
  • Often

• I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Long
  • Think

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • May
  • Evil
  • Heaven

• If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Things
  • Worse

• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • Real
  • America

• Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Love
  • Experience

• I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Understood

• Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Wounds