Poignancies Quotes & Sayings

The Christian calendar is wrong, Jesus was born years earlier. — Pope Benedict XVI

Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood. — Edward Abbey

Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke! — Donald Evans

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. — Sting

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths of cancer patients ... And they amount to merely a fraction of the thousands of people who in recent years have died or suffered terribly from cancer experiments ... — Ted Gup

Kids, don't be too big to accept advice. — Hack Wilson

The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office. — John Stossel

D it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all the way up to her face. [Lena] — Ann Brashares

If water was beer I'd be a teetotaler — Benny Bellamacina

I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary. — Jewel E. Ann