Peculiar Bible Quotes & Sayings

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever. — Chad Hugo

Wind waves on the lake break hard against the sharp rocks, but wash gently on sandy shores. — Tom Gillaspy

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. — Michael J. Fox

Cities were suddenly populated by a class of consumers, free to worry about other pressing matters: new technologies, new modes of commerce, politics, professional sports, celebrity gossip. That — Steven Johnson

The Bible sees a peculiar virtue in powerlessness, appropriate to a people which has seldom possessed power, and suffered much from its exercise; but it also sees virtue in achievement, and achievement as the sign of virtue, especially of those once weak and lowly. Both Joseph and Moses had no rights of birth, and narrowly survived vulnerable childhoods or youth; but both had the God-endowed qualities to bring them to greatness by their own efforts. — Paul Johnson

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves. — John Brown

Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years. — David Plotz

I like Dave Grohl, I guess he's a little newer. It makes you shake, it's uppity and spirited. — Ted Nugent

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. — Aristotle.

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. — Clint Eastwood

Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one. — Ronald McNair

Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time. — Lionel Shriver

Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers. — Bill Dedman