Semonti Stephen Quotes & Sayings

There is no point in imagining that if one had been there, one could have prevented a thing that had happened only because it had not been prevented — Alan Paton

I know I am incapable of courage unless I have decided to give my life. Without that choice, there is nothing but flight. But you take such a decision on the spur of the moment and you cannot make it last for weeks and months. The mental effort is too great. Hence the rarity of true courage. We generally accept a kind of lame compromise between the destiny and the man, which reason rejects. — Gabriel Chevallier

When she got to Eileen Reilly, Eileen turned red and said, "I would rather not say." This astounded me, for her father was a handsome, charming salesman at Home Savings Shoes on Main Street - Stan the Shoe Man, my mother affectionately called him. But his daughter had absorbed some disappointment - his, or her mother's - and did not want to speak of how he earned his living. Perhaps that was the moment I learned this as a source of personal shame, or observed the possibility of it. — Lorrie Moore

You're not alone, unless you choose to be." As she left my room, she said over her shoulder, "It's time to stop running. — H.M. Ward

In my next life, I'd like to come back five foot, two inches, with the best ass and tits you've ever seen. — Andie MacDowell

In the game of cards, he would always get the worst hand. In the game of dice, he always got the worst numbers. By the age 7 he had already accepted that luck was not his thing. But for the first time, he wanted to get that perfect hand. For the first time he wanted to be the one, to be the one whom she would like over all others. — Naren Singh

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases — Shai Linne

He could see. And he walked along, feeling the joy of a man who sees, a joy that a man tends to forget in sufficient light. — Wendell Berry