Syld Sims Quotes & Sayings

We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sports spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion. Richard J. Foster, 1981 — Catherine Whitmire

Maybe all anyone ever needs is for someone to notice them, to observe them. — Jasmine Warga

Well, what do we have here? What have they sent us from central casting - is this a hobbit? Are you a magical creature from a storybook realm come to enchant me with your dark magic? — Rick Yancey

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge! — Edward Hopper

He claims not to be drinking, but I don't think he knows what this means. — Nick Flynn

As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase 'And it came to pass', the Book of Mormon would be reduced to a pamphlet. — Richard Dawkins

So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets. — Rachel Vincent

When you live in a small town like Iowa Falls, there's not a lot to do, so we would, as a family, watch a ton of films. — Patrick Whitesell

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries. — Kathleen Brown

I have such bad insomnia and sometimes with insomnia, you can sort of relax and read a book, but anyone who has insomnia knows that other times, it generates incredible anxiety. — Jai Uttal

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers. — Isabel Allende