Umeken Quotes & Sayings

I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something. — Ice-T

If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then we would have no choice but to believe. We would lose our freedom not to believe. And in the very moment that we lost that freedom, we would cease to be human beings. Our love of God would have been forced upon us, and love that is forced is of course not love at all. Love must be freely given. Love must live in the freedom not to love; it must take risks. Love must be prepared to suffer even as Jesus on the Cross suffered, and part of that suffering is doubt. — Frederick Buechner

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes. — Kevin Hearne

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. — Kirsty Gallacher

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence. — James Dickey

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded. — Wendie Malick

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on. — David Levithan

Home is not a place, Not a smell, Not a face, But a space In your heart. -M. White — Staci Hart

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling. — Cesare Beccaria

I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing. — George Clooney

Half of a broadcast show, in my experience, is things happening, and the other half is people talking about how they feel about the things that happened. And so there's this sense of everyone saying their subtext out loud. — Noah Hawley

The most powerful people on earth are focus groups. — William J. Clinton

The goal of art was the vital expression of self. — Alfred Stieglitz

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance. — Donald Creighton