Sills Quotes

#1. DEAD FLIES ON THE SILLS OF sunny windows, weeds along the pathway, the kitchen empty. The house was melancholy, deceiving; it was like a cathedral where, amid the serenity, something is false, the saints are made of florist's wax, the organ has been gutted.

James Salter

#2. She had camouflaged the vinegar factory in her character with a great honeycomb along the sills and porches of her public self.

Pat Conroy

#3. I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. - Beverly Sills

Deborah Smith

#4. My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls ...

Woody Guthrie

#5. As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos.

Dana Gould

#6. Father, the dark moths crouch at the sills of the earth, waiting.

James Sallis

#7. One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

David Sills

#8. God will not lead you where He will not provide for you.

David Sills

#9. Art is the signature of civilizations.

Beverly Sills

#10. You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for ... unless it's contagious!

Beverly Sills

#11. The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a homogeneous end product has outlived its usefulness, and also its credibility. . . .The point about the melting pot. . . is that it did not happen.

David L. Sills

#12. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Beverly Sills

#13. A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Beverly Sills

#14. There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Beverly Sills

#15. Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

Beverly Sills

#16. When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.

David Sills

#17. Don't get me started on critics.

Beverly Sills

#18. Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Beverly Sills

#19. Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other.

David Sills

#20. My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Beverly Sills

#21. When you love the Lord, you long to glorify Him and see the nations fall at His feet in worship. When you love your neighbor as yourself, you share the gospel with him and seek to meet his needs in every way you can, which includes seeing him fall at Jesus' feet in thanksgiving for salvation.

David Sills

#22. The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of missionaries advance the Kingdom as nothing else could and the blood of the saints has ever been the seed and fuel of gospel advance.

David Sills

#23. I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Beverly Sills

#24. There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

Beverly Sills

#25. Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

Beverly Sills

#26. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Beverly Sills

#27. God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

David Sills

#28. There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

Beverly Sills

#29. Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

Beverly Sills

#30. When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

Beverly Sills

#31. If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane.

David Sills

#32. Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

David Sills

#33. Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Beverly Sills

#34. As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.

Beverly Sills

#35. I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Beverly Sills

#36. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

#37. I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Beverly Sills

#38. Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time ... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

Beverly Sills

#39. Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

Beverly Sills

#40. I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

Beverly Sills

#41. Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.

Beverly Sills

#42. If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.

David Sills

#43. Today, 112 years later, 94% of the people in the world recognize the Coca-Cola logo and product. In 112 years, we can reach the world for profit's sake, but we cannot do it for the glory of God in 2,000 years.

David Sills

#44. A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Beverly Sills

#45. My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Beverly Sills

#46. What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.

David Sills