Umeki Quotes & Sayings

We all have moments with the dust, but the dew is given. — Emily Dickinson

I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to. — William Eggleston

But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics. — James J. Gibson

It was this: this moment and no other moment, and for the first time that Gansey could remember, he knew what it would feel like to be present in his own life. — Maggie Stiefvater

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it. — Jodi Picoult

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself. — Giambattista Vico

We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We deny righteousness in fear of our own safety, and in doing so forfeit the future of our children. We let them live in a dead tomorrow because we fear bleeding for it today. — David Dalglish

There was a young woman named Fleager
Who was terribly, terribly eager
To be all the rage
On the tragedy stage,
Though her talents were pitifully meagre. — Edward Gorey

There are two principal approaches to secularism, focusing respectively on (1) neutrality between different religions, and (2) prohibition of religious associations in state activities. — Amartya Sen

You should be living your life surrounded by people who are like-minded, service-oriented, and grateful, people who are trying to accomplish things, and who bring something to the table. — Steve Harvey

I claim the right to be who I want to be. Regardless of my choice, I will find those who agree and those who don't. I will gain support, and I will confront opposition, but I will stand firmly as me.
It is my choice.
It is the only real choice I have to make. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent. — Debasish Mridha

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. — Miriam Darnell