Searay Quotes & Sayings

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. — Alexander Pope

He doesn't know what the world is like today. The thought that his own conception of the world was so different from his father's was like a protecting wall around his entire being. When his father went out into the street he had only the mosque, the Koran, the other old men in his mind. It was the immutable world of law, the written word, unchanging beneficence, but it was in some way wrinkled and dried up. Whereas when Amar stepped out the door there was the whole vast earth waiting, the live mysterious earth, that belonged to him in a way it could belong to no one else, and where anything at all might happen. — Paul Bowles

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists. — Justin Torres

Jesus has markers. — Todd Burpo

Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no grace, goodness enough to need no progress, humility enough to need no repentance, devotion enough to need no quickening, strength sufficient without Your spirit; lest, standing still, I fall back for evermore. — Eric Milner-White

Nobody is gonna love you like you. — T.I.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic. — Bill Nye

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change. — James Hansen

I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name,
and I found one with a lifeguard's chair,
a broken shell, gulls watching egrets,
home an ocean away. — Michael Broder

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. — Stephen King

The struggle doesn't end just because you know the way. That's when it's only beginning. — Paullina Simons

Within an hour Groves's teletype rattled out a translation. My fellow Germans! I live! Yet another of the countless atrocities that have befallen our lands has stricken Berlin - but not me. I am speaking to you so that you can hear my voice and know that I myself am not injured and well. The vast crime in Berlin has destroyed the entire center. But it cannot destroy the inevitable victory of the National Socialist Reich! My survival is a confirmation of the task imposed upon me by Providence - and — Gregory Benford