Creson Seminte Quotes & Sayings

We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men. This is what has in fact happened, and it is strangely ironical : those who wished to overthrow all dogma have created for their own use, we will not say a new dogma, but a caricature of dogma, which they have succeeded in imposing on the western world in general; in this way there have been established, under the pretext of "freedom of thought," the most chimerical beliefs that have ever been seen at any time, under the form of these different idols, of which we have just singled out some of the more important. — Rene Guenon

I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as
sadness. — David Foster Wallace

Whisper 'yes' where 'no' wants to take root. — Suzanne Eller

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy. — Kit Harington

Qhuinn stopped breathing, focusing everything he had on the male who had been his best friend and his never-been lover ... and the ever-after that was never going to happen.
Even after all the things that had gone on between them, and all the fuckups on his end, which were legendary, Blay still had his back.
"I love you," Qhuinn blurted into the silence. — J.R. Ward

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching — Rodman Philbrick

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life. — Rob Sheffield

Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history. — Eric Foner

Allegories drawn to great length will always break. — Samuel Johnson

Why this should be so is hard to say; one might be tempted to believe that it was based on some ancient convention that originally had a practical purpose, such as a cellar being cold and therefore best suited for storing corpses, and that this principle had been retained in our era of refrigerators and cold-storage rooms, had it not been for the notion that transporting bodies upward in buildings seems contrary to the laws of nature, as though height and death are mutually incompatible. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I must confess, I honestly & intensely dislike emotion. Its a messy human default. — Daleen Van Tonder

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now. — Eckhart Tolle

Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone! — Jane Austen