Smialek Origin Quotes & Sayings

This is the best biography by me I have ever read. — Lawrence Welk

After all as much more deeper we go as more questions we have... — Deyth Banger

for I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them. — Barbara Pym

I know I promised. I said, 'Ask, seek, knock and you will find.' You say, 'But I have found loss. I have found dispossession. I have found letting go.' And I would say to you that until you dispossess what you have you can never possess what I want to give to you. Until you surrender your understanding, you will never get My wisdom. You would say, 'Lord, what is at the end of this process?' — Mark Chironna

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress. — John Marmysz

Break the rules, Karla. Just this once, — L. H. Cosway

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others. — Clare Of Assisi

Only the never-ending work of mourning can help us from lapsing into the illusion that we have found the parent we once urgently needed - empathic and open, understanding and understandable, honest and available, helpful and loving, feeling, transparent, clear, without unintelligible contradictions. Such a parent was never ours, for a mother can react empathically only to the extent that she has become free of her own childhood; when she denies the vicissitudes of her early life, she wears invisible chains. — Alice Miller

The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God. — Phyllis Schlafly

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy. — Arthur Guiterman

You know how you just have to touch your child, sometimes? How you drink him in with your eyes and you could stare at him for hours and you marvel at how dear and impossibly perfect he is? — Anne Tyler

Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life. — Amit Chaudhuri