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.
Quotes to Explore
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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!
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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.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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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.
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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.
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We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
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I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
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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.
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People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.
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I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for the poor. I also did a lot of work in fast food.
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I try to drink a lot of water and always moisturize. When my skin gets cranky, I use Proactiv to keep it clear. That stuff really works.
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I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.
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The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many people, and they just loved it so much and they still love it to this day.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.
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'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.
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When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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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.
