Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• Midst

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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • History
  • Marriage

• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

  Beck
  • Home
  • Year
  • Keep Going

• I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Real

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.

  

  Arthur Helps

• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Time
  • Desert

• I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

  

  Max Apple

• In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Power
  • Basketball

• Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.

  

  Andrzej Wajda
  • Together
  • Present

• I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Women
  • Earth
  • Boy

• I need the lightness of children's lit.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Children
  • Lit

• So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Job

• The best part about doing 'Wuthering Heights' was you were completely in that world. It could not have been done with CGI. You had to be there.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • World
  • Done

• 'I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.'

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Hope
  • Soul

• If the two economies can figure out how to waltz... I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges and universities, and I think there are benefits for Cuba as well.

  

  John Hickenlooper

• I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Dream
  • Film
  • Television

• Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • People
  • Youth
  • Menace

• Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Children
  • Black
  • Mean

• In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Family
  • Money
  • Education

• Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Trying
  • Giving

• Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Prayer
  • God Is
  • Midst