Short Powerful Bible Quotes

#1. He found, moreover, that the younger and more ignorant his pupils were, the more pleasure he took in teaching.

Hermann Hesse

#2. The writer:
a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death. Then he can be given a mythic personality: 'he spent time among us, betrayed us, and took the material across the border.

Paul Bowles

#3. All of those guys who told me that I was too short and how complicated the game was, it is not that complicated. It is the same game I have always played.

Doug Flutie

#4. When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

Saib Tabrizi

#5. If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself.

Gary Zukav

#6. Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

Earl Nightingale

#7. It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Friedrich Engels

#8. Grant, O Lord, that your love may so fill our lives that we may count nothing too small to do for you, nothing too much to give, and nothing too hard to bear, for Jesus Christ's sake.

Kurt Bjorklund

#9. How good it felt to exist without pride or ambition. To live in hibernation.

Amelie Nothomb

#10. My unexpected trip to the light may have been cancelled, but here I was, still paying the cost of the return ticket

Teri Garey

#11. To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses

A.A. Patawaran

#12. It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.

Christina Engela

#13. You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella.
First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?

David Letterman

#14. Lean on me," someone says in Jane Austen to a woman he scarcely knows, and there's no question but that she will, that she takes it for granted.

Barbara Vine

#15. Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

Jon Elster