Dsemba Quotes & Sayings

I knew more things than I could tell, and I felt something terrible was going to happen in a short time. — Michael Paul Mason

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. — Bernie Worrell

In enjoyment is the fear of disease, In high birth, the fear of losing caste, In wealth, the fear of tyrants, In honour, the fear of losing it, In strength, the fear of enemies, In beauty, the fear of old age, In knowledge, the fear of defeat, In virtue, the fear of scandal, In the body, the fear of death. In this life all is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. — Swami Vivekananda

He still had the Dutch habit of laughing at whatever you told him, just in case it happened to be a joke. — Michael Lewis

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience. — Willie Stargell

I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For a kid it's traumatic. Towels you can never touch. China no one's ever gonna use. Everything is for a special occasion that never happens. My mother was waiting for the Pope to show up for dinner. Or Sinatra. Or Chachi. — Ray Romano

What tended to happen, to Colin and Mary at least, was that subjects were not explored so much as defensively reiterated, or forced into elaborate irrelevancies, and suffused with irritability. — Ian McEwan

And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write. — Kelli Russell Agodon

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. — Mary Wollstonecraft