Bonny Lee Bakley Quotes

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

Bonny Lee Bakley

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• Littles
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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Light
  • Action

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • God
  • Long
  • Thank God

• I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

  

  Carl Honore
  • God
  • Think
  • Works

• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • God
  • Glory
  • Willingness

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• Libraries can take the place of God.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Place
  • Libraries

• He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • God
  • Church

• One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  

  Vanity
  • Light

• The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.

  

  Annie Besant
  • God
  • True

• Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God

• Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Shadow

• I don't tell my children, 'If you're not good, you're going to hell.' I tell my children that God will be there for them when they struggle. That's the God I believe in.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Great
  • Important
  • Care

• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Stories
  • Process
  • Memory

• I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

  

  Bonny Lee Bakley
  • God
  • Light
  • Littles