5 Cm Donny Dhirgantoro Quotes & Sayings

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. — Robert Louis Stevenson

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it? — Michael Cunningham

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. — Francis Bacon

The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks. — Leo Tolstoy

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out? — George R R Martin

And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years. — Farley Mowat

Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land. — Digby Jones, Baron Jones Of Birmingham

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, Are we being good ancestors? — Steven Johnson

Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?"
With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed. — Sabrina Jeffries

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. — John Milton

Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice. There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there's no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one's thoughts awake." And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing-gown always hung in his bedroom. And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife's room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows. — Leo Tolstoy

You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire. — Roger Ailes