Muminek Quotes & Sayings

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. — Thomas Carlyle

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert

The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence, — Nicholas Eberstadt

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family. — Amanda Lindhout

I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs! — A. J. Buckley

We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence. — Reinhard Bonnke

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. — Gore Vidal

I just wanted you to know because I felt connected to you that night in a way I've never felt connected to anyone. Then today, when I saw you again, that connection I felt years ago instantly returned. — Kim Karr

Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision. — C. Nzingha Smith

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! — Immanuel Kant

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it. — Ryan Reynolds

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man. — Max Stirner

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good. — Thomas Carlyle

We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it's not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that's not what sends you to heaven or Hell. — Timothy Keller

And after that, after the awkward shuffling away of that last thin layer of clothes, words retreated to the sounds they once were. We had sex. A happy entanglement of warm limbs and warmer love. A physical and psychological merging that conjured a kind of inner light, a bio-emotional phosphorescence, that was overwhelming in its gorgeousness. I wondered why they weren't prouder of it. Of this magic. I wondered why, if they had to have flags, why they didn't just opt for one with a picture of sex. — Matt Haig