Sempio Wheat Quotes & Sayings

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi in hoexkens ende boexkens"
"I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not save in a little nook and in a little book. — Thomas A Kempis

...but that very thought, that she might become his wife, had for some reason entered his head the very first time she sat in his study at a little round table, diligently taking down in shorthand the words he dictated in his muffled voice - and he had been purposely dry and sharp with her that day, so she would not feel the power she had already gained over him, but when, as he dictated to her, he imagined himself kneeling before her beneath the flickering light of a nearly spent candle and kissing her feet, with her unable to leave because she was his wife, and about to blow out the candle so they could plunge into the passionate, exquisite swim, then his voice became hoarse and he shut his eyes to blot out the sight of this little girl, as he purposely tried to picture her to help restrain his imagination, girl students being as untouchable as postulants... — Leonid Tsypkin

You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That's not what this is about to them. — Rush Limbaugh

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health — Kyffin Williams

Great passion governs itself;
reason in the background, given to servitude.
The greater your passion,
the more you should strive to tame it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture — Camille Paglia

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. — Bryant H. McGill

It's hard to find normal celebrities. — Carrie Underwood

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability. — Derek Bok

Oh the sweet air in Narnia! An hour's life there is better than a thousand years in Calormen. — C.S. Lewis

I am tired of reading about God's visitations of yesteryear. I want God to break out somewhere in my lifetime so that in the future my children can say, "I was there. I know; it's true." God has no grandchildren. Each generation must experience His presence. Recitation was never meant to take the place of visitation. — Tommy Tenney

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is. — Michael Hirst

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive. — Roberto Clemente

Remember that conversation is like ping pong. You say something, she says something. Then you respond to something she's just said, then she bats it back. You ask her a question. She replies. Do you get the idea? — Sue Townsend

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth. — Jerry Della Femina