Brian D. McLaren Quotes

Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.

Brian D. McLaren

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• What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Happy
  • Nice
  • Day

• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Language

• I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • School
  • Myself
  • Always

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Piano

• I got lost but look what I found.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Lost
  • Look
  • Found

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

  

  Faith Hill
  • You
  • Day
  • Marriage

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Born
  • Now

• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Day
  • Fly

• I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Success

• If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Way
  • Working
  • Working Hard

• Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Truth

• As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible...19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning.

  

  W. Sangster
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Truth

• It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that sharp intake of breath.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • People
  • Funny
  • Pain

• Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • People
  • God
  • Game