Mcswiney Semple Quotes & Sayings

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy. — Jean De La Bruyere

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart. — Stephen Colbert

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction. — Mahatma Gandhi

But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran. — David Ignatius

Because one moment in life does not define a person," Li Min said. "Without mistakes and misjudgments we would stagnate. It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try. Nor is a scar or injury something to despair over, for it is a mark that you were strong enough to survive. — Alexandra Bracken

We are humble because we know we are not the power in salvation. We are obedient because we know we possess the light. — Mark Dever

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. — Solomon

Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal. — Diana Pharaoh Francis

You don't pigeonhole yourself, people pigeonhole you. If the world is not at a place yet where it can just be like, "This music is gay and it's music," then it's not my fault that it gets pigeonholed, it's not the people in the band's fault, it's because people won't just let music be music, people who need to put a name on something or to critique something. — Beth Ditto

So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will. — Cheryl Strayed

That's the truth," Quinton said. "I think that's what all of us are looking for, inside of BDSM or not. To be understood, to find our like-minded tribe, to be accepted and belong, no matter what. — Laura Kaye

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego. — James L. Farmer Jr.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. — Thomas Pynchon