Poelon Quotes & Sayings

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us. — Leverett Saltonstall

Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rely on the Holy Spirit in their intellectual pursuits, but this does not mean they should expend no mental sweat of their own in defending the faith — J.P. Moreland

A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something — John Gardner

Modesty is the color of virtue. — Diogenes

One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are. — Anne Lamott

He longed for that year right after the injury, before he met Andy, when it seemed that everything might be improved upon, and that his future self might be something bright and clean, when he knew so little but had such hope, and faith that his hope might one day be rewarded. — Hanya Yanagihara

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future. — Frank William Taussig

All this from one kiss. If we ever make love, I'm going to need a week to recover. — Sarah Addison Allen

There either is or is not, that's the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it's red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I'm not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it. — Charles Dickens

Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed stupid and false. — Ann Brashares

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad. — Kurt Cobain

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me. — Jill Scott

I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day. — Alexandre Dumas

The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer