Powder Keg Quotes

#1. Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

William J. Clinton

#2. One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

James A. Baldwin

#3. What you really want to know," I say, "is how to make sure we all don't just rip each other apart, right?" The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us apart.

Beth Revis

#4. Who knows how this whole evening is going to turn out anyway? It's like 'The Breakfast Club' in a powder keg in here and I'm wondering who's going to light the match.

Katja Millay

#5. Make me strong. Not to be superior to others. To fight my greatest ennemy. Myself.

Kalki

#6. The highest knowledge, knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

Christopher Titus

#8. Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.

Alan Bennett

#9. Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.

Nell Zink

#10. I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17 ...

John Geddes

#11. It is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen

#12. I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

Seamus Heaney

#13. Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.

Jim Berg

#14. Men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell