Solembum Quotes & Sayings

The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days ... spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death. — Billy Graham

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony — Blaise Pascal

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character. — Christopher Paolini

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel. — Greg Egan

I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy. — Marg Helgenberger

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. — Marcus Aurelius

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much? — Bernard DeVoto

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh. — Jan Karon

At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us, touch us, those that break us and hurt us, those which remind us that we will always be the ignorant of this life. We have to read the books that make us so little, make us a speck of dust or a grain of sand in a galaxy, until we feed our minds with all the knowledge we need, which is infinite in itself. — Nema Al-Araby

What you do for your own happiness should ultimately make everyone happy. — Lalithambika Antharjanam

When we allow the bitterness of others to consume us, it prevents any chance of tasting life's sweetness. — Charles F. Glassman

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. — Henry David Thoreau