Ataupun Kbbi Quotes & Sayings

As soon as absolute truth is supposed to be contained in the sayings of a certain man, there is a body of experts to interpret his sayings, and these experts infallibly acquire power, since they hold the key to truth. Like any other privileged caste, they use their power for their own advantage. They are, however, in one respect worse than any other privileged caste, since it is their business to expound an unchanging truth, revealed once for all in utter perfection, so that they become necessarily opponents of all intellectual and moral progress. — Bertrand Russell

I don't say anything because he's got fire inside him for sure, and fire burns. — Dawn Kurtagich

King John won't need any persuading that the French have a hand in this. From what I've heard, if a bean gives him a bellyache he swears it was a French one. — Karen Maitland

Some word - from before this translation — Ted Hughes

A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get. We want you to be valued, girls. Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. — Margaret Atwood

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. — Luke Taylor

The Word of God is the wisdom of God. It makes no difference how educated you are, how many books you've read, or what you think you know in life, or about life; if you don't have the Word in you, you can't function in the wisdom of God. — Chris Oyakhilome

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all. — Julian Fellowes

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden

Otter says nothing and as I turn to look at him, he's watching me, that gold-green shining with that regard that always leaves me breathless. I don't know what he's thinking right now. I don't think I want to know.
Are you sure? the voice in my head asks. Are you absolutely sure you don't want to know?] — T.J. Klune

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently. — Barry Manilow

Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates. — Spartacus

Problem. My biggest problem is that I live under the illusion that I can do anything I put my mind to while I give lip service to needing God's wisdom. I — Gloria Furman