"I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness."

-- Dodie Smith

#Rain Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Church Quotes

“The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.”
“You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.”

Source : "Leighton Meester: Drama Queen". Interview with Allison Glock, www.marieclaire.com. Mar 13, 2012.
“That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.”
“We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.”
“I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.”
“In business, you try to solve problems.”

Source : "Republican Bob Corker Is Senate's Deal Maker". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 8, 2010.
“We must know. We will know.”
“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”

You may also like:

Elizabeth Wein
Writer
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Playwright
Glenn Close
Film actress
Gregory David Roberts
Author
Louise Fitzhugh
Author
Meg Wolitzer
Writer
Stella Gibbons
Author
Victoria Smurfit
Actress
Bill Peet
Illustrator