Semple Elementary Quotes & Sayings

You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts. — Graham Swift

I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience. — Jason Aaron

He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness. — Cassandra Clare

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do. — Paul Davies

Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!) — Maria Semple

Love and kindness are in the root of all creations. — Debasish Mridha

Maslow notes that the self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a freshness of appreciation; and has a genuine desire to help the human race. Yet when it comes down to it, in certain basic ways he is like an alien in a strange land. Very few really understand him, however much they may like him. — Wayne W. Dyer

The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them. — Benjamin Franklin

If you couldn't save your own life, was it even worth saving? — Rainbow Rowell

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. — Franz Kafka