Berpelukan Di Quotes & Sayings

The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before. — Joan Tewkesbury

Nineteenth-century liberalism had assumed that man was a rational being who operated naturally according to his own best interests, so that in the end, what was reasonable would prevail. On this principle liberals defended extension of the suffrage toward the goal of one man, one vote. But a rise in literacy and in the right to vote, as the event proved, did nothing to increase common sense in politics. The mob that is moved by waving the bloody shirt, that decides elections in response to slogans - Free Silver, Hang the Kaiser, Two Cars in Every Garage - is not exhibiting any greater political sense than Marie Antoinette, who said, "Let them eat cake," or Caligula, who made his horse a consul. The common man proved no wiser than the decadent aristocrat. He has not shown in public affairs the innate wisdom which democracy presumed he possessed. — Barbara W. Tuchman

But Tom," said the moon, "the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone's a pendulum swinging, to and fro, and always you're getting hit by someone else's swinging pendulum. You're minding your own business, but someone else'e pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get it in the head. — Dave Eggers

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me. — Martin Niemoller

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first. — Yasmin Mogahed

Pain is nature's way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we've got the message. — Martin Amis

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible. — Henry Clay Trumbull

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception. — Ervin Staub

Every word I utter for hip hop lovers
Will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other ... — Canibus

But he was not her Gabriel. Her Gabriel was dead. Gone. Leaving behind only vestiges of him in the body of a harsh and tortured clone. Gabriel had almost broken Julia's heart once. She was determined she would not let him break her heart for the second time. — Sylvain Reynard

The books you read in childhood shape the person you become. — Paula Berinstein

Falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance. — Ian McEwan

Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad. — Mick Jagger

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going. — Catherine Fisher