Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Science
  • Intelligence

• Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Education
  • Focus
  • Successful

• I hate musicals. There, I said it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Hate
  • Said
  • Musicals

• We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Ego
  • Rumors

• I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Real
  • Die
  • Simple

• Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds:-That is by the letters written by their quills.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Heaven

• Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

  

  Leo Burnett
  • Fun

• When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

  

  Billy Crystal

• I always have an item in mind that I want to wear; then, the next day, I put it on, and I love the 20-minute rush of frantically tearing clothes out of my wardrobe to go with it. And I honestly feel that's the best way to do it; there's no method to my fashion madness so to speak.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Mind
  • Fashion

• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Kids
  • War
  • Culture

• I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Up
  • Plant

• The most talented people that I've met in this business are always the nicest.

  

  James Caan
  • People
  • Business

• For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Good
  • Long
  • Country

• I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else.

  

  Jordan Gavaris
  • Right
  • Uniqueness
  • Specialness

• I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

  

  Joan Allen

• There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Great
  • God
  • Die

• In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

  

  David Walton
  • Different
  • May
  • Character

• Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

  

  Jet Li
  • Waiting
  • Sun

• While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Sleep
  • Waiting
  • Gratitude