Erwin McManus Quotes

In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

Erwin McManus

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• I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Juggle

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Mom

• Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Theater

• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Work
  • She
  • Government

• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Poetry

• God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • God
  • Broken
  • Employees

• Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Process
  • Immigration

• Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Work
  • Single
  • Magic

• A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Mind
  • May

• People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Doubt

• Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Band

• Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Christians
  • Apostles
  • Persuaded

• Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are examples of countries where the people remain relatively free after the people have been disarmed, but there are no examples of a totalitarian state being created or existing where the people have personal arms.

  

  Neal Knox
  • Freedom
  • Countries
  • Firearms

• Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Sense
  • Forgive
  • Nonsense

• But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Sense

• In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Sense
  • Transition
  • Hypocrites