Semmi Quotes & Sayings

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent. — William Wordsworth

If you're a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It's like being engaged and never getting married. It's miserable. — Matt Chandler

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. — Pope John XXIII

She was like a dream I'd given up long ago. A different life, a better me. A chance to wash the filth away. — Chanel Cleeton

She is so distinct to me, it's as though I had run my hands all over her. — Franz Kafka

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul. — Chloe Thurlow

Talking to yourself?" Her father turned the corner of the house to join her amid the rows of roses. Sneaking was evil, she decided. "No. I was ... just conversing with the new rosebush," she stammered, feeling her cheeks warm. "Ah. And did it answer?" "I believe it to be shy." "If it everdoesanswer, you will inform me, won't you ?" "Very amusing. — Suzanne Enoch

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it. — Maya Angelou

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. — George Bernard Shaw

Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently. — Sue Patton Thoele

I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know. — Iris Apfel

I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder. — Serena Williams

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up. — Studs Terkel

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts - God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. — C. G. Jung

After a moment, she said, "Yes. I think she will be good for you."
"You do?" He couldn't keep the surprise out of his voice.
"Si." She smiled grimly. "She will break your heart and leave you shattered and alone." She paused to think that over, then nodded approvingly to herself. "It will make you a man. — Suzanne Harper