Donna Vanliere Quotes

#1. It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

Donna VanLiere

#2. It was a whisper in the soul, a lump in the throat, and an echo in the deep and hidden places of the heart. It was the hope that we are loved, truly loved, and that we are known. It was what I wanted more than anything.

Donna VanLiere

#3. To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.

John Henry Newman

#4. I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

George Jung

#5. Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing"
"Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.

Donna VanLiere

#6. I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for ... because everyday was a special occasion with your father.

Donna VanLiere

#7. The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

Donna VanLiere

#8. I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#9. What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ... Attention has no centre.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Thornton Wilder

#11. Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

Kenneth Eade

#12. As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

Yareli Arizmendi

#13. Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Donna VanLiere

#14. Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough?

Donna VanLiere

#15. If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives ...

Donna VanLiere

#16. I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Donna VanLiere

#17. The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

Thomas Perry

#18. If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?

William Drummond

#19. Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time - that's permanent.

Sabaa Tahir

#20. Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown

Donna VanLiere

#21. He muttered, "ow," and burst into a cloud of green flame, which I figured was going to make Babycakes pretty upset.

Rick Riordan

#22. My grandma showed me that there is always something to learn, that everybody got something to tell you

Kathleen Grissom

#23. I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

Donna VanLiere

#24. Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.

Donna VanLiere

#25. Sometimes it seemed as if the past was a painting that she had dipped in water, allowing the colours to run and drip, merge and fade so that an entirely altered landscape remained.

Anita Rau Badami

#26. In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them.

Ravi Zacharias

#27. Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.

Donna VanLiere

#28. So much of life is made up of questions that we think matter today but are forgotten tomorrow.

Donna VanLiere

#29. Am I crazy Loretta?"
"A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

Donna VanLiere