Sombrios Quotes & Sayings

Self-respect is not the same as self-confidence or self-esteem. Self-respect is not based on IQ or any of the mental or physical gifts that help get you into a competitive college. It is not comparative. It is not earned by being better than other people at something. It is earned by being better than you used to be, by being dependable in times of testing, straight in times of temptation. It emerges in one who is morally dependable. Self-respect is produced by inner triumphs, not external ones. — David Brooks

Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions. — Seth Godin

All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is. — Aleksandar Hemon

There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees. — Ogden Nash

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin. — Matt LeBlanc

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. — Mother Teresa

[The entire text of Infinite Jest.] — David Foster Wallace

We do need our defense capabilities. The cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with. — Marco Rubio

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.' — Malorie Blackman

My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house. — Al Madrigal

Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back & you'll be free. — Wayne Dyer

Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear ... — Alexander Pope

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it. — Millar Burrows

...good things, important things, should be eternal. — Rick Riordan