Sem Quotes & Sayings

It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed. — Leo Tolstoy

Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule. — Raheel Farooq

Consider the fact that no matter how many planets and stars are reflected in a lake, these reflections are encompassed within the water itself; that no matter how many universes there are, they are encompassed within a single space; and that no matter how vast and how numerous the sensory appearances of samsara and nirvana may be, they are encompassed within the single nature of mind (sem-nyid). — Dudjom Lingpa

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work — Andrew Wyeth

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. — George Bernard Shaw

There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. — Dan Simmons

My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me. — Agatha Christie

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did. — Marie Windsor

Sometimes it takes a lot of really bad times all lined up in a row before you get yourself together to start having some good ones. — C.J. Berry

Thoughts are phantoms. And when you fight with phantoms they always win. — Marty Rubin

Gabcik - tht's his name - really did exist — Laurent Binet

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up. — Frederick Lenz

Their detectors, like everything else about them and their small, shrinking world, were always looking for the wrong weapons, Sem thought as he began to sharpen his pencil. — Jason Heller