Beristri Banyak Quotes & Sayings

Wallowing in this bloody sty,
I cast for fish that pleased my eye — Robert Lowell

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot ... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. — Michael Jordan

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long. — Zoroaster

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! — David Crockett

(By the way, if you are going to read this story at all, and if you don't know already, you had better get it into your head that the left of a ship when you are looking ahead, is port, and the right is starboard.) All — C.S. Lewis

All genuine learning comes through experience. — John Dewey

I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life. — Peter Jacobson

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew. — Peter Eisenman

I despise this false lucidity that comes with age. The truth is that they are just like everyone else: nothing more than kids without a clue about what has happened to them, acting big and tough when in fact all they want is to burst into tears.
And yet there's nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they're adults themselves, they exact their revenge by deceiving their own children. 'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late. The mystery remains intact, but all your available energy has long been wasted on stupid things. All that's left is to anesthetize yourself by trying to hide the fact that you can't find any meaning in your life, and then, the better to convince yourself, you deceive your own children. — Muriel Barbery

Grace means suddenly you're in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own. — Anne Lamott

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives. — Timothy Keller

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself - more birds than women flocking round his body! — Homer

The girls looked aghast. I watched them cast baleful looks their mother's way, and saw, in their silky, seamless faces, the thick patina so many years of privilege had left behind. Suddenly I was enraged - enraged at both of them for not knowing what these privileges had cost. — Jennifer Egan