Leonard Barr Quotes & Sayings

I felt like I was being pulled through a dark, dank wardrobe into some boozy Narnia. — Brittany Cavallaro

They then easily moved on to the faith-destroying, even blasphemous idea that everything that happens in this world is caused by God. — Dallas Willard

Your room is not your prison. You are. — Sylvia Plath

Oh, to be in England now that April's there. — Robert Browning

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own. — Ralph Peters

Do not focus your thoughts among the confused wheels of secondary causes, as -'O if this had been, this had not followed!' Look up to the master motion of the first wheel. In building, we see hewn stones and timbers under hammers and axes, yet the house in this beauty we do not see at the present, but it is in the mind of this builder. We also see unbroken clods, furrows, and stones, but we do not see the summer lilies, roses, and the beauty of a garden. Even so we do not presently see the outcome of God's decrees with his blessed purpose. It is hard to believe when his purpose is hidden and under the ground. Providence has a thousand keys to deliver his own even when all hope is gone. Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for him, and lay Christ's part on himself and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's. — Samuel Rutherford

Many things can cause us to worry, but a kind word or deed can do wonders. Sometimes that's all we need to feel better. — Kate Klise

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified — Edward Heath

If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me. — Jack Davenport

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was nowhere else I wanted to go. TV was of no interest. Films were just a fantasy. Yet I was convinced that when we found ourselves in that world of fantasy and sci-fi, it was our classical background and our training that equipped us for that larger-than life-world. — Patrick Stewart

A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss? — Mary Papas

How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. — John Green

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet — Gertrude Stein

I don't particularly want to think of your funeral because I'd much prefer to die before you do. But I mean, if I were going to your funeral, at any rate it would be an orgy of grief. I should take a lot of handkerchiefs. — Agatha Christie