Sematimba Peter Quotes & Sayings

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

When someone shows you who there are, believe them. — Robin Mcclellan

Even Soviet love songs were first and foremost propaganda, ballads of metalworkers or farmers who loved their country first and each other second. — Oksana Marafioti

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships. — Rick Warren

She'd thought love was painful and agonizing and all about not good enough. But it was about fitting so well with someone that everything felt bright and crisp and right. — Hailey Abbott

The profound experience of childbirth does not produce profound people. If this were so, the guy with ten kids would be a prophet and priests would be out of work. — Anthony Marais

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890. — John Burnside

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark. — Aubrey Plaza

Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success. — Gautama Buddha

Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009. — Loic Le Meur

When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else. — Robert Reich

Clearly, Siberian reindeer are not fighting over drugged urine for its nutrative value. — David J. Linden

The stiff and unyielding are the companions of death, while the yielding and tender are the companions of life. Therefore we see that unbending armies cannot conquer, and the strongest tree feels the axe. The mighty will fall down low, but the humble will rise up. — Lao-Tzu

Before I got into rock n' roll, I was going to be a dentist. — Gregg Allman