Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Great
  • Pain

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Amazing

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Going
  • Everyone

• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Up
  • Know
  • Cutting

• We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Free
  • Army
  • Slave

• There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Up
  • Child
  • Young

• Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Anger
  • Peaceful

• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Person
  • Glory
  • Accomplish

• So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Be Careful

• Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • School
  • Career

• When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Real
  • Think
  • Doing

• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nature

• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • School
  • May

• We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!

  

  P. L. Travers

• When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God

• As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Political

• I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

  

  Kesha
  • Live

• The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • Family
  • Society
  • Practice

• Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Age
  • Future
  • Past

• The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Need