Votives Quotes & Sayings

When the boy sits up, ... , holds his holy votive tablet up with both hands as if to heaven, up at the level of his head like a priest raising the bread, cause this place is full of people who have eyes and choose to see nothing, who all talk into their hands as they peripatate and carry these votives, some the size of a hand, some the size of a face or a whole head, dedicated to saints perhaps or holy folk, and they look or talk to or pray to these tablets or icons all the while by holding them next to their heads or stroking them with fingers and staring only at them, signifying they must be heavy in their despair to be so consistently looking away from their world and so devoted to their icons. — Ali Smith

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

Life's most wrenching choices are not between right and wrong but between competing demands on our time, our resources, our love and loyalty. — Terryl L. Givens

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.
I don't want to lose him, another part argues.
I don't know which part to believe. — Veronica Roth

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention. — Rinko Kikuchi

like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. There were old bicycles in some, or baby carriages. A steamer trunk, once, filled with broken dishes. A jar of pickled cauliflower. — Alice McDermott

If God saved my life, why didn't he save their lives? Is my life so much more valuable? So I'm special ... and they're
not? — Amy Harmon

Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is. — Fairfax Cone

It's not the surprise that matters, it's how you react to it. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie. — Bob Mould

Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all children are born with, like knowing how to operate a remote control or getting high fevers in distant airports. — Dave Barry