Semesienta Quotes & Sayings

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become. — Felicity Huffman

Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination. — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison

I am an emotional I am an emotional, devotional, incandotional creature. — Eve Ensler

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement. — Frances Trollope

George, you must realize that the world is a joke. There is no justice, everything is random. Only when you realize this will you understand how silly it is to take yourself seriously. There is no grand purpose in the universe. It just is. There's no particular meaning in what decision you make today about how to act. — Viktor E. Frankl

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral. — Rachel Vincent

They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was -- a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner -- and move on. — Jennifer E. Smith

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions. — Judy Biggert

Life is a fragile thing. Apparently the whole world is fragile too. — Elizabeth Norris

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. — Eric Massa

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky. — E.B. White

While you're playing yourself out in lonesome dissipation in front of a pinball machine, someone else might be reading through Proust. Still another might be engaged in heavy petting with a girlfriend at a drive-in theater showing of Paths of Courage. The one could well become a writer, witness to the age; the others, a happily married couple. Pinball machines, however, won't lead you anywhere.
Just the replay light. Replay, replay, replay ... — Haruki Murakami

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career. — Rupert Holmes

Science and religion, then, are competitors in the business of finding out what is true about our universe. In this goal religion has failed miserably, for its tools for discerning "truth" are useless. These areas are incompatible in precisely the same way, and in the same sense, that rationality is incompatible with irrationality. — Jerry A. Coyne

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state. — Walid Muallem