Scentless Candles Quotes

#1. Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#2. ... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death.

Djuna Barnes

#3. He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.

Winston Churchill

#4. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Maya Angelou

#5. Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

Noel Coward

#6. Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Fletcher Knebel

#7. He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

Emo Philips

#8. Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

Del Close

#9. Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.

Jaime Buckley

#10. In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Anton Chekhov

#11. Your heart is everything. Why else would God ask for it first? I mean, why not ask for your mind? Your soul? Instead, God asks for our hearts.

Rachel Van Dyken

#12. I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#13. While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

Meryl Streep

#14. When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.

Marian Seldes