Hemsko Quotes & Sayings

It was as if he had just seen a door open to another place, somewhere worlds away where hanged men blew in the wind at every crossroads, where witches shrieked overhead in the night. — Neil Gaiman

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove. — Susan Estrich

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Proclaim when we evangelize, and it's what makes our efforts at evangelization fruitful. — Scott Hahn

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic. — Annie Dillard

A couple of days after the letter arrived, I was discharged from the hospital, in the custody, so to speak, of about three yards of adhesive tape around my ribs. Then began a very strenuous week's campaign to get permission to attend the wedding. I was finally able to do it by laboriously ingratiating myself with my company commander, a bookish man by his own confession, whose favorite author, as luck had it, happened to be my favorite author-L. Manning Vines. Or Hinds. Despite this spiritual bond between us, the most I could wangle out of him was a three-day pass, which would, at best, give me just enough time to travel by train to New York, see the wedding, bolt a dinner somewhere, and then return damply to Georgia. — J.D. Salinger

Belief is of four kinds. The first kind is a belief accepted because it is believed by all. The second is a belief accepted because it is believed by someone in whom the believer trusts. The third belief is the belief that reason helps one to believe. The fourth belief is conviction, of which one is as sure as if one were an eyewitness — Hazrat Inayat Khan

If the bird hadn't sung, it wouldn't have been shot. Japanese Proverb — Bohdi Sanders

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority." — Victoria Bond

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it. — William H. Macy

Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are — Donald Miller