Umika Quotes

#1. So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not shuffled to worse deaths, and died unremembered.

Joe Hill

#2. Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates

Charlotte Temple

#3. If it is possible to be homesick for the world, even places one has never been and knows one will never see, this book is the child of such homesickness.

Huston Smith

#4. It stings to clean a wound, to poke it and prod it until certain that any contagions have been excised, but we want to heal.

Bromleigh McCleneghan

#5. The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are ... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

Frank Gaffney

#7. trust the universe (or God), but tether your camel.

Teri Meehan

#8. But purpose is personal. It can't be right or wrong. It can't be true or false. It can't not be about you. It's how you decide to live your own life. If someone else tells you how to live, you are not free. If you don't choose your own purpose, you are a slave.

Dan Barker

#9. Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Everett Dirksen

#11. I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

Tom Verlaine

#12. You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

Joseph Jackson

#13. Only a perfect rose, has the power to persuade a perusal of its petals

Gaiven Clairmont