Poisonwood Bible Leah Quotes

#1. What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Edmund Husserl

#2. Sam!" cried Carney. "I'm afraid I lost the flashlight, but ... "
That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#3. You've got to lose to know how to win.

Steven Tyler

#4. I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Walter Dean Myers

#5. I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Sean Penn

#6. I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

Amitav Ghosh

#8. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles. When a good man loves a good woman, God smiles so broad and bright that the angel guarding the gate to Eden puts down his fiery sword. I've been to busy to get to Eden. What kind of man is too busy to make God smile?

Alice Randall

#9. For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Queen Victoria

#10. The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

Thomas Keating

#11. ...and is there anything to compare to love? Is there anything at all, anything that has ever been built, grown or coalesced that can compare to love? Love as deep as the Mariana Trench and wild as a summer storm?

Daniel Polansky

#12. The thanes nodded and patted each other on the back as if to say, Yes, wow! We really are wise and open-minded! We deserve cookies!

Rick Riordan