Franchina Quotes & Sayings

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity — Sinclair Lewis

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. — John Boyne

Among a hundred windows shining
dully in the vast side
of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
one burns
these several years, each night
as if the room within were aflame. — Denise Levertov

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper. — David Gemmell

He has infinite happiness not through self-centeredness, but through self-giving, other-centered love. And the only way we, who have been created in his image, can have this same joy, is if we center our entire lives around him instead of ourselves. Why — Timothy Keller

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness. — Dacia Maraini

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them. — Daniel Suarez

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life. — Hilary Swank

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

But old age, to begin with, has something in common with death. Some face it with indifference, not because they have more courage than others, but because they have less imagination. — Marcel Proust

When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead. — Herbert Achternbusch

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact. — William James