Samiha Quotes & Sayings

Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts. — William Sloane Coffin

To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other. — Julian Fellowes

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? — Felicia Hemans

She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays. — Margaret Mitchell

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. — Tom Stoppard

The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody ... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin. — Montel Williams

It's so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again. — Meg Cabot

If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it. — Alain Ducasse

In her mind she could remember about six different tunes from the pieces of his [Mozart's] she had heard. A few of them were kind of quick and tinkling, and another was like that smell in springtime after a rain. But they all made her somehow sad and excited at the same time.
She hummed one of the tunes, and after a while in the hot, empty house by herself she felt the tears come in her eyes. — Carson McCullers

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing ... It's tough. — Eminem

People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other. — Richelle Mead

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. — Alexander Pope

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. — Edward Kennedy

Her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth — Janet Fitch

The four men were in the kitchen laughing over breakfast when the door slammed open with such force that it knocked a picture off the wall. In unison, they jumped to their feet, not knowing what had hit them.
"What?! It wasn't enough for you to shoot me and kidnap me, so you had to go and butcher my hair? IS THAT IT?" she yelled at the top of her lungs. — Debra Trueman