Umphriesmagee Quotes & Sayings

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit ...
Ivan Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well. — Roma Downey

That's a dangerous look," said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road.
"What look?" I asked innocently.
"The one that says you just got some idea."
"I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea. — Richelle Mead

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. — Elias Canetti

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love. — Talal Asad

Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law. — Mark R. Levin

I'm not 20 years old any more. I'm not gonna go out on quite the limb I did. — Dan Fogelberg

For many people in the Western world, freedom is limited not so much by what others do to us, but by what we cannot do for ourselves. Walker, — Eric Greitens

Something about lying on our backs staring up at the heavens ... opens the mind. — Dan Brown

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues. — Karl Lagerfeld

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself. — Gabriel Byrne

You snuck up on me," she said. "I guess I'm not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?"
Simon shrugged. "Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace. — Cassandra Clare

If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs. — Karl Marx

I've enjoyed my retirement. — Darrell Royal

He's more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby. — Eve Dangerfield