Barbette Houser Quotes & Sayings

It calmed him to collect the things he knew and did not speak of. — Catherynne M Valente

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him. — Jhumpa Lahiri

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.' — Stephen LaBerge

Doubt ... is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. — Gustave Flaubert

Every spring in the wet meadows and ditches I hear a little shrilling chorus which sounds for all the world like an endlessly reiterated "We're here, we're here, we're here." And so they are, as frogs, of course. Confident little fellows. I suspect that to some greater ear than ours, man's optimistic pronouncements about his role and destiny may make a similar little ringing sound that travels a small way out into the night. It is only its nearness that is offensive. From the heights of a mountain, or a marsh at evening, it blends, not too badly, with all the other sleepy voices that, in croaks or chirrups, are saying the same thing. — Loren Eiseley

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems. — Michael Shannon

It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun - a feeling you have - and it's also a verb, something you do. — Rob Bell

We mustn't allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, to prove us and to improve us. — Alistair Begg