Semere Habte Quotes & Sayings

The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams. — Sri Chinmoy

Belief is a feeling and faith is a practice based in experience. Now she has faith; — Christopher Rice

Quinn came over to refill his glass. He looked towards the bedroom door. "Where'd you find the little blonde?"
"Used to bounce it on my knee."
"Which knew?" he asked. "Could I touch it? — Dashiell Hammett

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence. — Helene Deutsch

It's not what you say, but how you say it! — Mae West

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all. — Anita Shreve

Lovers want to be alone, or at least with strangers; never with older people, or worst of all with relatives. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. — Saint John Chrysostom

When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain. — Al Michaels

Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic. — Richie Norton

Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union. — Lorna Jane Cook

At last he stopped, and she stared down at the printed column of words, unable to comprehend a single one. His hand, warm and steady, wound its way around hers, wrapping it like a spider would its prey. She surrendered it to him, unable to watch even as his thumb traced the place, just above her knuckles, where he had once written his number in deep violet. Isobel ceased to breathe. Her heart pounded in her chest, her thoughts shattering into senseless fragments. All the while, her eyes remained trained and unblinking on the open page. Lines without meaning stared up at her, little more than black sticks in an otherwise white world. — Kelly Creagh

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse. — Ellen Key

While we have been pursuing God he has been rushing toward us with reckless love arms flung wide to hug us home. — Ken Gire

In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city of Taghaza, which, he said, was entirely built of salt, including an elaborate mosque. — Mark Kurlansky