Quotes & Sayings About Septimus Smith

Winter makes me want to rage. — Liza Lapira

Maybe we should Create a 'Happy God Day' and make it the one day of the year you can't kill each other. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living. — Bell Hooks

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Brutes abstract not.
If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. — John Locke

Her ideas were expressions of her inability to accept her own personal tragedy and her quest for some certainty on which she could rest a troubled spirit. Her her lack of education was a real handicap, because she had no historical or philosophical perspective from which to analyze her own experience of grief and loss. Because we lived in a cultural wasteland of suburbia, there were no schools or evening classes she might have attended which could offer an intellectually disciplined approach to her quest. Nor were there any churches which might have offered comfort through the beauty of their liturgy. — Jill Ker Conway

No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance — Confucius

We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real. — Dana Frank

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way. — Amor Towles

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more. — Mats Sundin