Spieker Pool Quotes & Sayings

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life. — Tina Turner

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lucretius wrote in The Nature of Things: Especially since this world is the product of Nature, the happenstance Of the seeds of things colliding into each other by pure chance In every possible way, no aim in view, at random, blind, Till sooner or later certain atoms suddenly combined So that they lay the warp to weave the cloth of mighty things: Of earth, of sea, of sky, of all species of living beings. — Marcelo Gleiser

[He] was brave. He didn't care if the whole world knew he was kind. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Through the activity of Jesus, the reign of God is established on earth; Jesus is the "image," "imprint," or "word" of God. He thus belongs on the side of God; he is the one through whom God has appeared in the world and toward whom God has acted in a unique manner in raising him from the dead. In Jesus Christ one thus encounters God himself. — Jens Schroter

But of course names were secret things, full of power. And — Stephen King

My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it's the best stuff. She sells it for a fortune, btw. — Sophie Kinsella

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.) — Anne Stevens