Semiofficial Quotes & Sayings

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. — George Pataki

Too late. I've already seen the blush. Stop trying to hide it from me. I think it's adorable. — Abbi Glines

It's hard sometimes, especially with a book like 'Scorch Trials,' to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task. — Dexter Darden

As far as we know, we're the only intelligent, technological civilization ever to develop, in the entire universe. There's complex life all over the place, but we're still basically unique. We have a fucking duty to preserve that. At all costs." Laurence — Charlie Jane Anders

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us. — Bob Corker

I do not wish you other than you are, Tessa. You are what you are, and I love you. — Cassandra Clare

I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK. — Jeremy Corbyn

You never needed wings to fly,
You only needed love. — Jenim Dibie

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. — Hesiod

You can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction — Isabel Allende

An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China - the direct result of the British love of tea. — Tom Standage

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election — George Carlin

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on. — Nicholson Baker

A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. This kind of mutual recognition provides the catalyst for a potent alchemy. It is a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials. While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension
seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence. This means recognizing that we both have an important part to play in helping each other become more fully who we are ... A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion. — John Welwood

I thought of myself, in those days, as someone in disguise - beneath the obedient son, beneath the straight-A student, the agreeable well-brought-up boy with his friends and his ping-pong and his semiofficial girlfriend, there was another being, restless, elusive, mocking, disruptive, imperious, and this shadowy underself had nothing to do with that other one who laughed with his friends and went to school dances and spent summer afternoons at the beach. — Steven Millhauser

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology. — Amy Dickinson