Charles Follis Quotes & Sayings

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across. — Poppy Delevingne

The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a framework on top of mystery because we need someplace to live, some manner of surviving nature's fury and our mundane daily needs. — Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

She vanished over the side of the chapel. Kaz stood there, staring at the place she'd been only seconds before. She'd tricked him. The decent, honest, pious Wraith had outsmarted him. He turned to look back at the long expanse of roof he was going to have to traverse to get back to the boat. "Curse you and all your Saints," he said to no one at all, then realized he was smiling. — Leigh Bardugo

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. — Jennifer Egan

Your tolerance is not love. It is unfaithfulness. — Kevin DeYoung

Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose — Russ

Quick, where is the Red Cross God with the ointment and plaster the needle and thread and the clean linen bandages to mummify our festering dreams? — Janet Frame

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. — Ben Mendelsohn

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that. — Kiri Te Kanawa

There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out. — Denis Johnson

As I gripped the hilt of the sword, my mind calmed and my body filled with purpose. This is who I was-this was what I knew how to do. I was a fighter. — Sara B. Larson

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it. — Graeme Murphy