Senmut Quotes & Sayings

His gaze moved from me to my hand as his brows rose and his grin transformed into a heart-stopping smile that reached his eyes, lightening them and warming them up. Seth not smiling or smirking was beautiful, but him smiling? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

The greater your dreams, the more unrealistic they sound. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It was necessary because she needed to do it. This is what made it necessary. — Don DeLillo

We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece. — Cassandra Clare

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey. — William J. Clinton

To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it. — Yuval Noah Harari

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one. — Charles Dickens

When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct. — Alan Moore

The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. — Barack Obama

They'd all do better if they could get past the storm and wait for the rainbow to appear. — Cecilia London

I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of the gods in the land of Kem, for I am weary of gods, nor to the glory of the Pharaohs, for I am weary of their deeds. I write neither from fear nor from any hope of the future but for myself alone. During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. — Mika Waltari