Charles de Lint Quotes
What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.
Quotes to Explore
-
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
-
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
-
State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
-
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
-
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
-
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
-
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
-
I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
-
I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
-
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
-
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
-
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
-
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
-
Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
-
Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
-
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
-
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
-
I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.
-
What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.
