Sementeira Quotes & Sayings

The only way to consistently stay ahead of the game is to adopt a long-term view and, if appropriate, with a strong contrarian spin. — Mark Mobius

He admired Fan for being Fan, which is to say the kind of person who would keep the right perspective on such qualified information). — Chang-rae Lee

Somewhere," I say out loud and hope she hears, "this water is nothing at all. It is lighter than air. — Ally Condie

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar. — Bobby Jones

There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out ... — Swami Vivekananda

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are not going to do the "does God test people" topic complete justice here because it's complicated, but a fair, brief summary would be this: Yes, God sometimes tests us (Deuteronomy 13:3, I Chronicles 29:17). But by God tests us, we don't mean He puts us through trials to see if we will fail (even secretly hoping we will fail). No, when God tests us, He is looking to find out what is in our hearts. He is looking to expose strength and weakness, to show us where we are and where we need to grow. His tests are not so much like a driver's license exam - you pass or fail - but like the diagnostic test a car manufacturer does on the cars themselves before releasing them into the world. The manufacturer needs to know if the vehicles are safe and ready for the road or if they need more work before they leave the factory. — Elizabeth Laing Thompson

You can tell Sam to go right to-'
'Look at that,' Jacob interrupted me. — Stephenie Meyer

If you want someone to tell you what to think ... "
"You will never be short of people willing to do so. — Frances Hardinge

A cunning politician often lurks under the clerical robe; things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like drugs on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousness has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labeled with a pious text from Scripture. — Washington Irving

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything. — Katherine Anne Porter