Best Poignant Quotes
78 Poignant quotes by 72 unique authors
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Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully delivers hope and…
— Ray Comfort
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That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to…
— Bruce Oldfield
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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
— Eric Hoffer
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To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
— Arnold Bennett
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The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But…
— Jim Cymbala
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The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home…
— Nelson Mandela
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A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
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Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in…
— Diane Ackerman
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Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition…
— Tosca Lee
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Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and…
— Dinty W. Moore
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Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss…
— Alan Moore
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Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay…
— Donna Freitas
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Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
— Billy Graham
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Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of…
— Pauline Kael
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People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive -…
— Frederick Lenz
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Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude…
— Drew Bledsoe
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As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit,…
— Rob Bell
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
— Zane Grey
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet,…
— Vikram Seth
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I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
— Grace Slick
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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people…
— Patti Smith
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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
— Wilbur Smith
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
— Eddie Vedder
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With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
— Angela Carter
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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
— Andrew Harvey
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