Poisonwood Bible Page Numbers Quotes & Sayings

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage. — Roberto Bolano

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy. — C.S. Lewis

I see you've managed to inspire a truly frightening degree of loyalty in those you command," she observed. "I watched you do it for seven years," he replied. "Looks like I finally got the hang of it. — Kirsten Beyer

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city. — Frederick Lenz

It is better for a man to remain silent and appear a fool, then to open his mouth and remove all doubt. — Samuel Clemens

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. — Angela Davis

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers. — Liya Kebede

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
[Lat., Non possidentem multa vocaveris
Recte beatum; rectius occupat
Nomen beati, qui Deorum
Muneribus sapienter uti,
Duramque callet pauperiem pati,
Pejusque leto flagitium timet.] — Horace

You are the somewhere you are trying to get to. — Mooji

My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply. — David Plotz

Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool. — Cecil Baldwin

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world. — Richard Steele