Umms Quotes & Sayings

Embrace your sacred existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bookstores, libraries ... they're the closest thing I have to a church. — Jim C. Hines

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love. — David Gemmell

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy. — Robyn Davidson

I wonder at my incapacity for easy banter, smooth conversation, empty words to fill awkward moments. I don't have a closet filled with umms and ellipses ready to insert at the beginnings and ends of sentences. I don't know how to be a verb, an adverb, any kind of modifier. I'm a noun through and through. — Tahereh Mafi

Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths? — Michael R. Burch

It is better to be a lender than a spender. — Jim Rohn

I would say national security is work in progress. — Jeb Bush

Besides, I kind of like my face intact like this, two eyes, one nose, one mouth, a full set of teeth, which, if I'm being honest, is one of my better features. — Jennifer Niven

Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves... — Assegid Habtewold

[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one gigantic record-keeping system, a complex sifting and filing scheme that dictates what goes here and what goes there, turning his life into so many marks on a tablet. His mind would busy itself with the book's whereabouts every second it was away. He knows it would. — Kevin Brockmeier

My country!" said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; "what country have I, but the grave, - and I wish to God that I was laid there! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. — Mehmet Oz

Sorry!I just couldn't control myself!" would be the excuse any virile man would offer to a girl he had just deflowered- after the event. He would offer the same excuse to Jupiter Foo. The King of the Gods would surely blow his top- like Vulcan, the Volcano God!Yak! Yak! Yak![MMT] — Nicholas Chong

He was almost certain Arella had smiled at him last night. Well, perhaps not at him, technically. But she had smiled in his presence, and that was an improvement. — Elisabeth Brown