Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Gossip
  • Regrets
  • Bonding

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Like
  • Embrace
  • Graffiti

• I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Science

• The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Say
  • Coach
  • Excuses

• Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Knowledge

• The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

  

  Charles Dickens

• What is the price of justice? What is the price of justice? When bail is set unreasonably high, people are behind bars only because they are poor. Not because they're a danger or a flight risk - only because they are poor. They don't have money to get out of jail and they certainly don't have money to flee anywhere.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Savage

• It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • American
  • True
  • Star

• If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up
  • Question
  • Cheer

• My wife Gwenaelle prepares an 'energy shot' for me for breakfast. It's a mix of linseed, cereal, and raisins, with fresh fruit like kiwi. She also adds yogurt for added texture and some pollen and honey for an energy booster.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • She
  • Energy
  • Wife

• I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.

  

  Lawrence Weschler
  • People

• You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez.

  

  America Ferrera
  • She
  • Fun
  • Mom

• The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

  

  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

• Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so. Legal or illegal, they are almost universally good people who work to better their lot and that of their children.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• What I've learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don't happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way.

  

  Angelica Ross
  • Bodies
  • Transition
  • Trans

• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Power
  • Grace

• I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • Pressure
  • Key

• Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I'd left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I'd left.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Sorry
  • Believed
  • Ministry