Manis Quotes & Sayings

You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

17Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. 19The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. — Anonymous

I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man. — Patti Stanger

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small. — David Hallberg

Our Obligations are...
to smile when happy;
to give meaning to this life;
to try to give a little more than we have taken;
to honor our Father for his kindness;
to not ignore those suffering or in need;
and to try to make this world a slightly better place before we leave it. — Jose N. Harris

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat. — Esmeralda Santiago

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. — Manis Friedman

It's like the old question, "Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what's inside?" Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside, undesirable things from happening, or to preserve and maintain what is inside: the delicate and sensitive ability to have and maintain an intimate relationship. — Manis Friedman

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is the best day with great possibilities and opportunities, so change yourself to start a new beginning. — Debasish Mridha

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes. — David Hockney

If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married. — Manis Friedman

How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites? ... How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do? — Andrew Manis

You cannot be anything but who you are, and you are not a killer. I am a killer, all I need to know is who you need for me to kill. — James Lee Nathan III

In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that. — Charlie Benante

Listen to your customers. Can the sales pitches and the product babble. Let your customer talk and show him that you are listening by making the appropriate responses, such as suggesting how to solve the problem. — Susan Ward

I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons, don't bomb cemeteries, and don't shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle) — Manis Friedman

Funerals...are for the living. — John Green

The whole spiritual process is just this: that you are willing to take the next step not knowing where it will lead you. If you are not ready for that, that means you are not ready for any new possibility. — Sadhguru

I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way. — Boris Johnson