Sawangen Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to say something to him about regret, about how I didn't really believe in the idea of regret because it was always based on what might have happened. People always held up the now, the concrete now, and compared it to what might have been, and that wasn't a fair comparison. — Kim Culbertson

When you lose focus, you lose locus. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When I visited Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., (it is the only university in the world for deaf and hearing-impaired students) and talked about the "hearing impaired," one of the deaf students signed, "Why don't you look at yourself as sign impaired?"4 It was a very interesting turning of the tables, because there were hundreds of students all conversing in sign, and I was the mute one who could understand nothing and communicate nothing, except through an interpreter. — Oliver Sacks

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way. — Madeleine L'Engle

The only true source of infallible certainty is divine illumination. — Stephen R. Lawhead

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.) — Robert C. Solomon

Already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies. — Leo Buscaglia

I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations ... I pray three times a day. I try to have a real experience praying, not just do it. I really get deep into the idea and really try to get somewhere with it, to have an in-depth understanding of the idea. — Matisyahu

I am Captain James Hook! I am no victim; I create them! I do not have bad dreams; I inspire them! — Heidi Schulz

Time slows as his words light upon me, but in my chest something bursts into a million fragments that melt back together instantly, remaking me into someone entirely new. — Gennifer Albin

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us. — Daisaku Ikeda

Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem. — Sally Hogshead

Some are so Foolish as to interrupt and anticipate those that speak, instead of hearing and thinking before they answer; which is uncivil as well as silly. — Various

A lantern can give you light only when you light it — Munia Khan