Simerly Creek Quotes & Sayings

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth. — Criss Jami

Everyone spends money freely that is freely given. — B.C. Chase

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul — John Frusciante

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. — Mortimer J. Adler

I would imagine that fighting an unwelcome colonial occupation is like fighting a malignant cancer. Destroying the cancerous cells one by one becomes a necessity for one's very survival. Shooting down members of a colonial occupying force one by one is the exact equivalent of destroying those cancerous cells. And to some extent, one assumes, more satisfying to those trying to be rid of the cancer. — Dimitris Mita

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. — George Weah

Love cannot reconcile with deception — Susan Abulhawa

The laws of the universe are never broken. Your mistake is to think that the little regularities we have observed on one planet for a few hundred years are the real unbreakable laws; whereas they are only the remote results which the true laws bring about more often than not; as a kind of accident. — C.S. Lewis

Nothing to do but follow your crazy, — N.K. Jemisin

Some day you cross this thin line and you really realize that we need to protect ourselves from ourselves. — Douglas Coupland

Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be. — Neal Stephenson

Remorse is the pain of sin. — Theodore Parker

I wanted to be a sadhu. But what good would it do for me to be a sadhu in India? A real test of faith would be to go back to one of the most materialistic, money-worshipping countries on earth [America] and be a sadhu there. — Daniel Suelo