Gungor Beautiful Things Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you tell the truth, and things are better for it. Other times truth hangs in the air like a fog, clouding the pretty lies. — David Arnold

You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust — Michael Gungor

I told her everything I could think of, even about my father being buried in the Protestant Cemetery. — John Cheever

When I think about it, the happiest, most successful, most fulfilled people I know are the ones who, over time, gave themselves the most permissions - in all areas of their lives. Guided — Sandford Lyne

There is something original in every one of us — Sunday Adelaja

I have five flashlights and each performs its own trick. I have a raincoat with zippers and net material so I never get too hot in a downpour. I have a shelf crammed with books and a shortwave that speaks Arabic, Japanese, Dutch and Russian. They have mud huts with maybe a few chairs and faded pages of old magazines fastened to the wall. I ride my twenty-one speed Peace Corps-issue bike to Ferke not to save a dollar on transport but for the luxury of exercise. They ride in from their settlements on cranky old mopeds or bikes with a single cog because it's the only option. And they give me charity. I just stare at it - near tears. To refuse their offer would be pure insult. So I do the rounds again shaking hands with all the men in boubous saying over and over "An y che " Thank you. — Sarah Erdman

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel. — Tom Perrotta

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books. — Theodore Roosevelt

It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him — Sunday Adelaja

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films. — Andrea Arnold

Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope. — Tuli Kupferberg

Meeting another doctor with a degree different than your own, presents you with the opportunity to expand your knowledge. — J. Alec Keaton

The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100. — Allyson Felix

Belief isn't something you can be reassured about. It's something that has to come from inside. — Kaitlyn Oruska