Simkom Quotes & Sayings

A royal spirit escaped from a prison: why should we rend our garments and how should we gnaw our hands?
Since they were monarchs of the (true) religion, 'twas the hour of joy (for them) when they broke their bonds. — Rumi

Wisdom isn't a body of information. It's the moral quality of knowing what you don't know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation. — David Brooks

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips
not because they're bad, but because they're mortal. — Patricia Raybon

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important. — Doyle Brunson

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole. — Archie Shepp

Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean — Wasif Ali Wasif

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes. — David Rubenstein

My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoided the spearhead aimed at it. It saw me too late to move out of the way, and I thudded into it, sending it head over heels. Then I turned around and said to my donkey, Do not fear my dear, I am here! — Mo Yan

The icy precepts of respect. — William Shakespeare

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities. — Henry A. Kissinger