Battistelli Quotes & Sayings

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Things aren't always what they seem
You're only seeing part of me
There's more than you could ever know
Behind the scenes. — Francesca Battistelli

Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far? — Francesca Battistelli

I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit. — Theodore Roosevelt

Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking. — Nora Roberts

I don't need my name in lights
I'm famous in my Father's eyes
Make no mistake
He knows my name. — Francesca Battistelli

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal ... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable. — Rebecca Solnit

The more you walk in relationship with the Lord, the more you learn to trust him. I'm learning not to focus so much on the issues I think are so big right now-our bus has broken down, or someone said something that frustrated me. I'm learning to slowly let things roll off my back, to say, 'Hey, God knew about this before it happened and He's got a way out or a plan better than mine.' I've learned to stop freaking out and just trust that God knows what he's doing. He's not going to leave me in a bad place because He never has before. — Francesca Battistelli

Now there's a joy inside I can't contain
But even perfect days can end in rain
And though it's pouring down
I see You through the clouds
Shining on my face. — Francesca Battistelli

In the middle of my little mess, I forget how BIG I'm blessed! — Francesca Battistelli

Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later. — Steven Pressfield

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."
"Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly. — Brandon Sanderson

There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot. — Lefty Kreh

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected. — Aesop

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it. — Pia Zadora

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are. — Steve Carell

The pudgy one moved his bishop and immediately turned the beetle around and started it trudging back the other way. "If the beetle just cuts across the corner, is time up then?" Starling asked. "Of course time's up then," the pudgy one said loudly, without looking up. "Of course it's up then. How do you play? Do you make him cross the whole board? Who do you play against, a sloth? — Thomas Harris

Gorgeous, glowing rays of light ... This was what true beauty and goodness looked like
a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself. — Lauren Kate

I'm reminded today how unpredictable God can be. — Francesca Battistelli

Not taking a drink was easy. Just a matter of muscle movement, the simple refusal to put alcohol to my lips. The impossible part was everything else. How could I talk to people? Who would I be? What would intimacy look like, if it weren't coaxed out by the glug-glug of a bottle of wine or a pint of beer? Would I have to join AA? Become one of those frightening 12-step people? How the fuck could I write? My livelihood, my identity, my purpose, my light - all extinguished with the tightening of a screw cap. — Sarah Hepola