Umphress Origin Quotes & Sayings

With affluence come the debased gifts born of abuse, misuse, and overuse. — John Zande

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded. — Christian Bale

On a daily basis, people lose their lives, they lose their health, they lose their families, and they lose their children, only because they refuse to have a corresponding knowledge to what they possess in hand. — Sunday Adelaja

This is the creature there has never been.
They never knew it, and yet, none the less,
they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,
its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.
Not there, because they loved it, it behaved
as though it were. They always left some space.
And in that clear unpeopled space they saved
it lightly reared its head, with scarce a trace
of not being there. They fed it, not with corn,
but only with the possibility
of being. And that was able to confer
such strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.
Whitely it stole up to a maid - to be
within the silver mirror and in her. — Rainer Maria Rilke

God is life. Life is divine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child. — Frederick Lenz

There's that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it's cool but on the other hand it's sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that's the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That's the taste of the movie. — Zack Snyder

When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs. — Marcus Aurelius

PAROLLES Just, you say well; so would I have said. — William Shakespeare

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail. (148) — Don DeLillo

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does. — Matthew Pearl