Szumma Quotes & Sayings

Nature introduces children to the idea - to the knowing - that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own. — Richard Louv

Some are clearly so confused that they have taken to wearing fedoras. A difficult period indeed. — Aziz Ansari

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room. — Simon Van Booy

Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and overweight our feeble reason till it fell, and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity. — H. Rider Haggard

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money. — Abraham Lincoln

The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way. — David Levithan

True happiness is devoid of any illusion. — Dada Bhagwan

Mother Nature does not do bailouts. — Al Gore

It says, Over these three years, our leader has had the courage to face a Europe that was in danger of collapse . . . It says, He alone is to be thanked for the fact that, for German children, a German life has once again become worth living. — Anthony Doerr

Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing. — Maggie Stiefvater

If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept
and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff. — Alfie Kohn

There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans — Ellen DeGeneres

The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind. — Dolours Price

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty. — David James Duncan

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky. — Patrick Stump