Umepon Quotes & Sayings

Amy thought a moment. How could they get rid of their mother? We could have her away taking care of a sick neighbor, and we are all alone in the house — Beverly Cleary

I needed to know who should get the best of my energy: my boys or a company that asked me to speak for them. I needed to know what matters. And the image of that man in his tuxedo was all I needed. You will always regret something. You will always disappoint someone. But it isn't going to be my husband and our boys. It has been, sometimes. But I'm learning. And I'm making things right. — Shauna Niequist

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. — Oliver Cromwell

If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him? — Nicholas Of Cusa

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. — Marianne Boruch

I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever. — David Sedaris

Success and nothing less, fly high or don't fly at all ... — Nanley Losier

Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn't something a special ops team can fix. — Radley Balko

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. — Vince Cable

I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself. — Katrina Kenison

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness — Robin G. Collingwood

You don't make art, you find it — Pablo Picasso

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen. — Method Man