Powerone Library Quotes

#1. When I was five I had violin lessons.

Randy Bachman

#2. But I could not bear to look into this man's eyes any longer and see such voracious need, because what if I realized that I was standing in front of a mirror?

Joel Derfner

#3. Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs.

Fr James Groenings

#4. ... being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

Anne Rice

#5. The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

Toba Beta

#7. Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.

Zoe Klein

#8. Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.

Margaret Chan

#9. For fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

Jan Karon