Semerita Oliva Quotes & Sayings

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion. — Vince Lombardi

Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad — Jeanne DuPrau

My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life. — Frank Bruni

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Yep, that pretty much describes my life: because Poseidon. — Rick Riordan

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word. — Dwight L. Moody

Brothers and sisters no genuine change can ever take place in a generation or epoch without first slaying the dragon of religion. — Sunday Adelaja

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first. — Charles Frazier

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk. — Sally Kellerman

The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money. — Dambisa Moyo

I sha'n't catch up in this world, anyway. I'd rather you'd not go unless you must. — Robert Frost

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors. — Olivier Martinez

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil. — Marcus Aurelius