Swymer Quotes & Sayings

Love only the people who deserve you. — Christian Mork

If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour. — Cornel West

Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time. — George W. Bush

You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' ... 'Where am I?' ... 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity. — Bill W.

However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss. — Jules Verne

That was what made the story so epic: the player, the hero, had to suffer mightily en route to his final triumph. Schwartz knew that people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering. Most people couldn't do this alone; they needed a coach. A good coach made you suffer in a way that suited you. A bad coach made everyone suffer in the same way, and so was more like a torturer. — Chad Harbach

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe. — Theodore Sturgeon

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way. — Pope Francis

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest. — Murasaki Shikibu

Men are punished by their sins, not for them. — Elbert Hubbard

The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment. — Hilaire Belloc

Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly. — Shenhui

I shattered our hearts and left her to mourn the pieces. — Ashlan Thomas