Shumka Ukrainian Quotes & Sayings

Her name, said the Oracle, will this time be Ama, a female that sleeps in every one of us, Yin of Creation, a wisdom guide that with her purity extinguishes thirst for spiritual longings. She is the one that stands on a crescent moon with stars in her hair, pouring water from jars of her soul into lakes of emotions, awakening compassion for humankind and its Chaos, nourishing Earth and Her constant renewal. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty. — Jan Cox Speas

You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe ... the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the issues that this country needs to grapple with to determine its future. — Olympia Snowe

People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It's like they're sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play. — Helen Smith

We are living in the era of the violent do-gooder. — Dennis Miller

Our romantic impulses are continually renewed. We blame everything but our hopes. — The School Of Life

The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]. — Dada Bhagwan

We have a saying in Russia: if there hadn't been an unhappy incident there never would be a happy one! — Anne Noggle

Mama Lo can get a bit nasty whenever I play with the cubs. She thinks I'm going to eat one, but they're not to my taste. Too hairy. Now if she'd let me skin one, I might be interested." (Simi)
He laughed in spite of himself. "Are you joking about that?" (Gallagher)
"Oh no. I never joke about hairy food. It's disgusting." (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course. — Kate Brian

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I mean no disrespect to the gentlemen of the bench, but it is no secret that our system of justice, praised throughout Europe for its severity and its swiftness, is a terrible and fearful thing, and no man, guilty or innocent, wishes to stand before it. — David Liss

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it. — Barbara Brown Taylor