Sempeles Quotes & Sayings

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that. — Kate Winslet

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. — Thomas Jefferson

I cast my lot in with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me. — Martha Summerhayes

Although we universally celebrate imagination, it is in fact a power that can uplift us and save us
or as easily demean and destroy us. Mozart imagined great music. Hitler imagined death camps and built them. — Dean Koontz

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme. — Oliver North

In our lifetime those who kill the newsworld hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised. - Morrissey, The Last of the Famous International Playboys — Maureen Johnson

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is. — Rodney Stark

Socialism is in no way a curate's egg — Margaret Thatcher

The only way I'd ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that's the only way I would do it. — Barry Switzer

Men always failed Maman in the end. They forever fell disastrously short of whatever ideal she held them up to. What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits and the flinging of cooking utensils and collapse. High drama. Maman was incapable of either starting or ending a relationship without excess. — Khaled Hosseini

I'm holding a super-expandable energy-powered towel. I've made friends with space hamsters. I think we've stretched believability rather far, don't you? — Michael S. Atkinson

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics. — Paul Dirac

Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end. — Damian Woetzel

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. — Mary E. Pearson

Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.' 'Very — J.R.R. Tolkien