Ayahku Bukan Pembohong Quotes & Sayings

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race. — Lou Reed

Democrats in state legislatures are at their lowest level since the 1920s. President Obama has a can't-miss strategy to save the party in 2016. He's leaving. — Craig Ferguson

Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books. — Samuel Johnson

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. — Herbert Croly

What a privilege and opportunity it is to utterly come to the end of one's hope-not only to run out of answers, but to run out of questions. To be beyond fighting, to come to that suspended animation where we are so confused and so weak that we can neither fight or run. When you come to the end of yourself, you find the beginning of God. And there and nowhere else, you find the answers you seek. You find fulfillment for the longings of your soul. — Max E. Anders

There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper. — Astrid Yrigollen

If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce ... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening. — Laura Wasser

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke ... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run. — Tim Cahill

Overwork is this decade's cocaine, the problem without a name," says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction. — Jim Loehr

The eyes are the landing strip to the heart. — Stan Dale

When the mind swings by a grass-blade
an ant's forefoot shall save you — Ezra Pound

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do but produce babies. — Ghulam Nabi Azad