Biliner Quotes & Sayings

Jesus Christ, we believe, is the fulfilment of every truly human aspiration. To find him is to find ourselves. — John R.W. Stott

Sooner or later, the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong. — Peter Cundill

My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith. — Leila Aboulela

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one so fine, that it may be compared to that of a warbler. — Charles Darwin

Concentrate. Level the sight. Breathe in.
Ease the trigger. And relax?
BLAP! The can somersaulted across the sand.

Pride swelled till I thought I'd burst.
But my pride slipped at Dad's reality check.
Not bad. Pretty good, in fact. For a girl. — Ellen Hopkins

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. — Wendell Phillips

I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much. — Martin Freeman

Anchor babies are "citizens" only because of a phony constitutional principle cooked up by Justice William Brennan in 1982. Just like abortion, sodomy, gay marriage, and unicorns - it's in the Constitution! — Ann Coulter

I close my eyes, inhale, and feel a rush of heat and energy that takes my breath away. It is the feeling of wanting something so much that it borders on an actual need, and the power and urgency of this need overwhelms me. — Emily Giffin

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. — Kurt Vonnegut

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last. — William Shakespeare

If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation. — Minot Judson Savage

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Hemingway used to write an ending to his novel only to delete it, asserting that it made the story stronger because the reader would always be able to intuit the ghost of that final, incorporeal passage. — Jessica Knoll