Dehlia Quotes & Sayings

Prayer does not give me what I want. It pummels my wants, kneads them, stretches them my whole life long, until at the last hour of my life I have learned to want one thing only, the only thing worth having. And so my whole life becomes a hidden sigh, an inarticulate utterance of the Name of God. My death will be my prayer, the sigh by which I give myself up at last into the presence of the Name. Thy — Benjamin Myers

I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure. — Thomas Eakins

This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that. — John Scalzi

The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done. — Donald Barthelme

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. — Martin Scorsese

It's so unattractive, I'm sorry. — Isaac

Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action. — Reuel Howe

It is good for a man not to touch a woman... — Anonymous

May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love. — Juan Luis Guerra

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive. — Robert Altman

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many ... Most of the time, I'm alone. — Cristiano Ronaldo