Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walker Percy

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

William Butler Yeats

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...

Robert Green Ingersoll

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Wendell Berry

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Wendell Berry

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Yoko Ono

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Deborah Williams

I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God.

Richard Risbrudt

I prayed for a miracle tonight and I got it.

Voltaire

theology is to religion what poisons are to food

William Shakespeare

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that

Paracelsus

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

Paracelsus

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Henry Taylor

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.