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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
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Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
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When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
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I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.
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There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.
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Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the gods of greed and power.
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Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.
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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.
