Valerianus Cecilia Quotes & Sayings

One may deal with things without love ... but you cannot deal with men without it ... It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life. — Leo Tolstoy

I've always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I've never lost sight of that. — Natalie Merchant

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back. — Delta Goodrem

God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science. — Roberto Bolano

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. — Barry Mann

The one-drop rule had never made any sense to him. If one drop of black blood made you black, why didn't one drop of white blood make you white? And hadn't anyone noticed yet that everybody's blood was red? — Tiffany Reisz

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. — Jim Elliot

Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God. — Max Anders

They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring? — Brandon Sanderson

There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness. — Martin E. Marty

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. — John Steinbeck

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true. — Duffy Daugherty