Votives Quotes

#1. like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. There were old bicycles in some, or baby carriages. A steamer trunk, once, filled with broken dishes. A jar of pickled cauliflower.

Alice McDermott

#2. I love oddballs and nerdiness, and it's a fun world to write in.

Alec Berg

#3. Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Khalil Gibran

#4. Sometimes I feel ... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance ... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Charles Studd

#5. Let my temptation be a book.

Eugene Field

#6. I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

Tom Shadyac

#7. Yet the very phrase "pro-life" has too often meant "harsh and exclusionary," and associating myself with such a movement made me judgmental and giving a witness that was contrary to the Gospel call.

Simone Campbell

#8. The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

Rhys Darby

#10. The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.

Harvey Pekar