Mike Yaconelli Quotes

Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.

Mike Yaconelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 24, 1942 - October 30, 2003

Topics

LifeGodSinLivingMoreDishonesty

Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.

Joaquin Castro

JobDoingYouAlwaysOutsiderWhere

Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.

Jennifer Granholm

GovernmentKnowSayWantOutJust

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Andrew Weil

ChangeMusicPowerInspireUsEven

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'

Steve Jurvetson

WorkHappenPureDealsSituations

Beyonce is this massive star, but she's incredibly humble. But it's weird because even though I love her, she's my boss's wife.

Rita Ora

LoveHumbleWifeBossWeirdShe

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

Mohsin Hamid

OpinionGroupHandRealIndividual

I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

Jason Aaron

TryingCreateTellJustStories

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

Christian Lous Lange

ForwardMarchHandStrugglesAgainst

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

Annabelle Selldorf

PeopleRememberYoungConcreteKnew

I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.

Ashley Jensen

TimeHatPeopleMeLadyLong

The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life.

Sylvie Guillem

LifeChildhoodMy LifePart

I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11.

Shaun White

OutKnockedSkateboarder

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