Stemergy Quotes & Sayings

Everybody makes his path differently. — Emanuel Ax

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God — Carter Conlon

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It is easy to snicker at such deceit and conclude that Hamilton faked all emotion for his wife, but this would belie the otherwise exemplary nature of their marriage. Eliza Hamilton never expressed anything less than a worshipful attitude toward her husband. His love for her, in turn, was deep and constant if highly imperfect. The problem was that no single woman could seem to satisfy all the needs of this complex man with his checkered childhood. As mirrored in his earliest adolescent poems, Hamilton seemed to need two distinct types of love: love of the faithful, domestic kind and love of the more forbidden, exotic variety. In — Ron Chernow

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in. — Keith Rabois

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. — Sallust

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on. — Henry David Thoreau

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years. — Karl Rove

Some of my cousins who had the great advantage of University education used to tease me with arguments to prove that nothing has any existence except what we think of it. The whole creation is but a dream; all phenomena are imaginary. You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist. These amusing mental acrobatics are all right to play with. They are perfectly harmless and perfectly useless. I warn my younger readers only to treat them as a game. The metaphysicians will have the last word and defy you to disprove their absurd propositions. — Winston S. Churchill

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable. — Melanie Lynskey

I sit still and prepare for the Great Unravelling, but instead find further knots. — Martin Cosgrove

Irish ex-priests don't succumb to drunkenness, we just become more talkative on whiskey, — Matthew Quick

The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count. — Rich Sommer

Reason can go only to a certain extent, beyond that it cannot reach. The circle within which it runs is very very limited indeed. Yet at the same time, we find facts rush into this circle. Like the coming of comets certain things come into this circle; it is certain they come from outside the limit, although our reason cannot go beyond. — Swami Vivekananda