Seisism Quotes & Sayings

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. — Robert Olen Butler

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life — Jerzy Kosinski

I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company. — Mel Brooks

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire. — Honore De Balzac

The smile that lit Sydney's features warmed me all over. — Richelle Mead

A novelist has two lives
a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. — Jane Smiley

Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge — Andreas Wagner

The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can go home but that - miraculously - we can feel at home there. If Christ did not require faith and repentance, then there would be no desire to change. Think of your friends and family members who have chosen to live without faith and without repentance. They don't want to change. They are not trying to abandon sin and become comfortable with God. Rather, they are trying to abandon God and become comfortable with sin. If Jesus did not require covenants and bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost, then there would be no way to change. We would be left forever with only willpower, with no access to His power. If Jesus did not require endurance to the end, then there would be no internalization of those changes over time. They would forever be surface and cosmetic rather than sinking inside us and becoming part of us - part of who we are. — Brad Wilcox