Poonen Quotes

#1. If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

Macklemore

#2. Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

Simone Elkeles

#3. The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

Alfred Shrubb

#4. To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

Martin Heidegger

#5. Spirituality is not something that comes through one encounter with God. It is the result of choosing the way of self denial and doing God's will consistently day after day, week after week and year after year.

Zac Poonen

#6. I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

Carre Otis

#7. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Hannah Arendt

#8. The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you ... The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.

Mao Zedong

#9. I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

Alice Munro

#10. As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.

Lance Henriksen