Proverian Quotes & Sayings

Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering. — Ammar Moussa

A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."

--Dark Mother — Jeffrey B. Thompson

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one — Rumi

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. — Mary Oliver

Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have. — Lindsey McKeon

'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice. — Penn Jillette

I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen. — Rod Lurie

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. — James A. Garfield

Tears filled Claire's eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn't leave. — Amy Waldman

I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!" She giggled. "Think I'll be fat and have gray hair?"

"I sure hope so," her father said, laughing himself. — Sharon M. Draper

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals — Abraham Verghese

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste — James Fenimore Cooper