Uhumc Quotes & Sayings

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward. — Meister Eckhart

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises. — Demosthenes

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it. — Guy De Maupassant

Just because something DOES NOT work, that doesn't mean it CANNOT. — Sarah M. Cradit

You might think people would buy clothes out of pity,
but they won't. People buy clothes because
they want to be excited about themselves.
... it has to be great clothing
that just happens to be goody-goody, too. — Katharine Hamnett

Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a psychological response to our lack of love for God. If God is everything, what else could we possibily want? — Tarek Saab

A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds. — A.G. Riddle

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it. — John Updike

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter. — Steve Kagen

Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely. — Bill McKean

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. — Sophie Swetchine

I love how you're so trusting with me," he murmured and leaned in. His lips brushed my cheekbone as he said, "I used to hate it." He sighed, long and meaningful and sexy. "I used to think it was a bad thing to give me so much, but now, when you close your eyes and just hang on for the ride, for whatever I have planned for you?" He took my earlobe between his lips and I gripped him tighter. "That makes me absolutely burn up when you do that. — Shelly Crane

When we want to correct someone usefully and show him he is wrong, we must see from what point of view he is approaching the matter, for it is usually right from that point of view, and we must admit this, but show him the point of view from which it is wrong. This will please him, because he will see that he was not wrong but merely failed to see every aspect of the question. Now, no one is annoyed at not seeing everything, but no one wants to be wrong; the reason for that may be that man is not by nature able to see everything, and by nature cannot be wrong from the point of view he adopts, as sense impressions are always true. — Blaise Pascal

If you wish to help someone, give secretly and avoid arrogance. — Ephrem The Syrian