Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.Barbara Brown Taylor
Quotes to Explore
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
Zubin Mehta -
I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
Hannah Storm -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour -
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg -
I am definitely a person of color.
Vin Diesel
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I like to do Pilates.
Yunjin Kim -
I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
Tali Lennox -
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger -
I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
Basmah bint Saud -
With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.
Nathalie Emmanuel -
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung -
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
Ted Nelson -
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden -
Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
Barack Obama -
Until I don’t lose, until I am not defeated such allegations will continue. People who have been trying to defeat me for the past 12 years have been using all their strength. They couldn't give me even a scratch. This is their ego problem.
Narendra Modi -
Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
Jack McDevitt
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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.
Jojo Moyes -
Your life is your message.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Alvin Adams -
Engvall pulls his car into a gas station after his tire goes flat.
Bill Engvall -
I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.
Lindsey Vonn -
I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
Barbara Brown Taylor