Hannah Weiner Quotes

#1. Poverty is a symptom - of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.

Steven D. Levitt

#2. My heart is a water balloon exploding in my chest.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. But I am going to keep going. I am going to soar, and soar, and break away - up, up, up into the thundering noise and the wind, like a bird being sucked into the sky.

Lauren Oliver

#4. I refuse to get any more scars from loving edges sharp enough to cut me.

Jessica Gadziala

#5. Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.

Eleanor Brown

#6. Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"
Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.

Dan Brown

#7. Wee know not who lives or dies.

George Herbert

#8. Never settle or be satisfied with compromise.

Steven Redhead

#9. Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.

James Bryce

#10. There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

John Henrik Clarke

#11. God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises "before the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

Timothy Keller

#12. I rushed through the door.
You had bitten a way for me.

Hannah Weiner

#13. It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve Wozniak

#14. I no longer complain about taking too much cream. I have made so many errors that unless I forgive myself and forget I will be in a helpless purple situation of self recrimination. The scorpio tail comes round to sting.

Hannah Weiner