Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • First
  • Holiday
  • Unfair

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Peace

• We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Fear
  • Scary

• I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Live
  • Family
  • Switzerland

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Human
  • Race
  • Realize

• Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Always
  • Alive
  • Radio

• Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Like
  • Perspective

• It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Find
  • Difficult
  • Duty

• My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Enjoying

• I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Limits

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• More and more people realize the importance of economic growth, near-term and long-term in the U.S., and the competitiveness with other countries around the world.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Progress

• It's not hard for me to figure out who I like or who my friends are. I trust my energy meter, but I'm also not afraid to let people in who might hurt me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Friends
  • Energy

• At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Jesus
  • Pray
  • Knocking

• The little girl's creative, a repertoire that rings, And Hollywood is waiting, to see the way she swings. She'll be graduating, goin' on to higher things, The little girl from Central is gonna take on wings.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • She
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Trust
  • Jesus
  • Way Of Life