Brian D. McLaren Quotes

Roman throats like the Zealots. Instead, if a Roman soldier backhands you with a blow...

Brian D. McLaren

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• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Real
  • Love

• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Lawyer
  • Rule

• The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Myself

• What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Father

• He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

  

  Sallust
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • Stop
  • Reading

• I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Time
  • Theatre

• I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I have played all kinds of roles in the theater.

  

  Jenn Lyon

• Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Important
  • Country
  • Together

• There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.

  

  Anderson Paak

• When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • Up
  • Done
  • Environment

• My training diet can be quite strict when I'm coming up to competition; it's a weight-making sport, of course. But I eat quite healthily anyway, and it's less strict when out of competition.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Up
  • Training
  • Competition

• I'm from Dagestan, I'm born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.

  

  Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

  

  Alexandra Roach
  • Important

• I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

  

  Bjorn Borg
  • Character
  • Political

• You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Money
  • Death
  • Scared

• Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Future
  • Creative Act
  • Materialization

• Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most sensitive of all the issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But Donald Trump determined an important aspect of the United States' position towards Jerusalem before any agreement. Most of the rest of the world feels that it ought not to be dealt with first, that it ought not to be dealt with separately, and that it ought not to be dealt with unilaterally.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Important
  • Christian
  • Sensitive

• Roman throats like the Zealots. Instead, if a Roman soldier backhands you with a blow...

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Zealots
  • Roman throats
  • Roman soldier