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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Insurance

• The hell with the aging process. It happens to everyone - you just keep your mind active, you keep physically active.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Mind

• Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Good
  • Power
  • Past

• Writing 'This Is Who I Am...' I wanted to write a song about where I'm at, that I have accepted where I have come to and I wanted my fans to be able to connect to it too. I want them to stand proud!

  

  Vanessa Amorosi
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Proud

• I really don't know anything about music.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Music

• I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Father
  • Black
  • Christian

• If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

  

  Kanye West
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Waiting

• I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Live

• 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