Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

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• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Wilderness
  • Empire

• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Hope

• A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Marriage

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Job
  • Best

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Long
  • Meaning

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dying
  • Means
  • Alas

• Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Drug

• In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Responsibility
  • Competition

• Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Power
  • Small

• I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Family

• Every day I am trying to improve my life.

  

  Alicia Machado
  • Life
  • Trying

• All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.

  

  Bella Heathcote
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Boyfriend

• I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • War
  • Relationship

• I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

  

  Brian Blessed
  • Up
  • Work
  • Driving

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Period

• I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

  

  Jon Heder
  • Good
  • Cool

• Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • God
  • Dark
  • Smoking

• I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • Up
  • God
  • Growing

• Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Religion
  • Kindness