Piercing Quotes
108 quotes by 94 authors
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In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and…
— Tony Blair
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing…
— Geraldine Brooks
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At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter;…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch…
— Volkmar Wentzel
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Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.
— Paulo Coelho
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Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that…
— Barbara Hepworth
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The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in…
— Charles Kuralt
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Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,…
— Alberto Santos-Dumont
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For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for…
— Hermann Bahr
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Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had…
— Elizabeth Knox
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May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own heart. Here is…
— Yossi Ghinsberg
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Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic…
— Josh Sugarmann
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Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most…
— Jeremy Begbie
Who Wrote These Piercing Quotes
94 authors contributed a total of 108 Piercing Quotes, led by these top contributors: