Apektuhan Quotes & Sayings

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt

There is another reason ever-single women fare even better than previously married women in later life. They mastered the single life long ago. From structuring social events in a culture that caters to couples, to figuring out how to work and get all the tasks of everyday life accomplished when there may or may not be others readily available to do their unfair share, always-single women have been there, done that. It is not a new or daunting challenge. — Bella DePaulo

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. — C.L.R. James

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn. — Ray Bradbury

There is no defense against a base on balls. — Joe Garagiola

Maybe 5 percent, maybe less, were the ones who sucked it up, learned the lesson, and moved on. The Julies. The good ones. His — James S.A. Corey

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other.
Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe.
The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger. — Ernst Junger

My life is just a never-ending work in progress. — Richard Simmons

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors." "Actually, that's a relief. I couldn't bear to think — William Paul Young

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well. — Georgia O'Keeffe

The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God. — David Platt

The test of science is not whether you are reasonable - there would not be much of physics if that was the case - the test is whether it works. And the great point about Newton's theory of gravitation was that it worked, that you could actually say something about the motion of the moon without knowing very much about the constitution of the Earth. — Hermann Bondi

Which would you rather be if you had the choice
divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? — L.M. Montgomery

I don't really shop a lot. I order things online. When I travel, I'll get some pieces along the way. — Lizzo

Their ascent was accomplished via a wide spiral staircase that sat within the reflective tube. Each of the metal steps were welded to its core. But even here in this elegant construct, the infernal touch hadn't been neglected. Each of the steps was set not at ninety degrees to the core, but at ninety-seven, or a hundred, or a hundred and five, each one different from the one before but all sending out the same message: nothing was certain here; nothing was safe. There was no railing to break the slide should someone lose their footing, only step after disquieting step designed to make the ascent as vertiginous as possible. — Clive Barker