Sembach Middle School Quotes & Sayings

The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things. — Lewis Carroll

They say it's the woman's prerogative to change her mind. But that's wrong. Guys are the one who get to say, "You know what? I don't want to be with you after all." They get to say it after they've sucked all the sweetness out of you, just like those cheap, liquid filled wax candy things we used to get for Halloween. They leave you dried up, empty piece of wax, and head off to find somebody else who still has some sweetness inside. — Holly Schindler

People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover. — Ronald Reagan

And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had. — Niccolo Machiavelli

When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching. — Deepak Chopra

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured — Thomas Paine

Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it just can open up and brings people a lot of joy. They can go from hating a room or hating a house to loving it. — Katherine LaNasa

An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others. — Tom Wolfe

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth. — Samuel Daniel

We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely. — Jimmy Wales

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn't dare to take things in hand? — Vincent Van Gogh

It's like the old question, "Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what's inside?" Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside, undesirable things from happening, or to preserve and maintain what is inside: the delicate and sensitive ability to have and maintain an intimate relationship. — Manis Friedman