Short Provocative Quotes & Sayings

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out. — Haruki Murakami

I died for a short while the first time we met — Charlotte V. Howard

But where shall happiness be found if a reciprocal love does not procure it? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Father Michaels' sermon was mercifully short. He had a reputation for three-minute homilies, tightly written, provocative and insightful. His words centered on the true meaning of Christianity. That is was all about love. Love of God, love of self, love of family, love of community.
Love was a gift. — Dorothea Benton Frank

From the first moment she met Stephen and in every minute of the short month she'd known him, a strange obsession to obey him, to please him, to give herself to him conquered her. In her innocence, she failed to comprehend the beauty of her fascination for him. She only understood the lively, provocative radiance coursing through her when he led and she followed. — April Vine

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China. — Joseph Needham

You've got to listen to what God's telling you and not to what other people may tell you. People will try to talk you out of the dream in your heart. — Joel Osteen

I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level. — Craig Venter

A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off. — Edward Lear

Xan had helped me in the end. Let him be an uncomplicated hero. — Kaje Harper