Basilea Schlink Quotes

When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.

Basilea Schlink

Quotes to Explore

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

Sadie Jones
- Great
- Writing
- Trying
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

Taylor Negron
- Money
- Truth
- Mom
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

Garrett Hedlund
- Mother
- Feeling
- Stories
God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.

W. Bruce Cameron
- Life
- Perfect
- Feel
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

Barry Eisler
- War
- Government
- Group
When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

Irwin Winkler
- Old
- Him
- Bond