Sormandal Quotes & Sayings

The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible. — Fanny Kemble

A beautiful life just like success, is not attained,it is lived — Wogu Donald

We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river. — Thich Nhat Hanh

A dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The motive power of democracy is love. — Henri Bergson

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is. — Rush Limbaugh

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. — Christina Rossetti

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation. — Barack Obama

Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people - especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty - who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well. — Julian Simon

The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less. — Thomas Paine

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present. — James Frey

Baby, I'm the oldest of three boys. I can handle a fist to the face, an elbow to the ribs, even a flying tackle. But a woman's tears? They scare me, straight to the bone. — Samanthe Beck

He'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it — Gregory David Roberts