Semeria Imports Quotes & Sayings

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in. — Andy Murray

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them. — Donald Norman

I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody. — Jenny Han

Over time I learned that objects and animals are true friends. In the forest I was surrounded by trees, bushes, birds, and small animals. I was not afraid of them. I was sure that they would do nothing harmful to me. I became familiar with cows and with horses, and they provided me with a warmth that has remained with me to this very day. Sometimes it seemed to me that what saved me were the animals I encountered along the way, not the human beings. — Aharon Appelfeld

I restore myself when I'm alone. — Marilyn Monroe

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all ... — Vera Nazarian

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me. — Jasper Fforde

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go. — E. M. Forster

Whoever reflects on four things, it were better he had never been born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, and that which is after. - Talmud, Hagigah 2.1 — Umberto Eco

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. — Arthur Eddington