Quotes & Sayings About Biruan

Hope is a joyful soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is so easy to point out what is the plain duty of others; it is so difficult frankly to acknowledge our own. — A.L.O.E.

I've always considered myself a writer. — Patti Smith

I have come to believe that in the life of every man, late or soon, there is a moment when he knows beyond whatever else he might understand, and whether he can articulate the knowledge or not, the terrifying fact that he is alone, and separate, and that he can be no other than the poor thing that is himself. (from Augustus's diary) — John Edward Williams

Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history. — Grace Lee Boggs

What does any of it matter in the end but who we loved and how we loved them. — Sandra Kring

The nature of war itself is changing to reflect this new reality. History has shown that two democracies almost never wage war against each other. Almost all wars of the past have been waged between nondemocracies, or between a democracy and a nondemocracy. In general, war fever can be easily whipped up by demagogues who demonize the enemy. But in a democracy, with a vibrant press, oppositional parties, and a comfortable middle class that has everything to lose in a war, war fever is much more difficult to cultivate. — Anonymous

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best. — Emanuel Geibel

Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers. — William Barclay

I have always thought a person needs to constantly refine the capacity to suspend disbelief in order to keep emotions organized and not suffer debilitating confusion, and I mean just toward the things of daily life. I suppose this admits to a desperate sort of pragmatism. Still, it works for me. What human heart isn't in extremis? — Howard Norman

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all. — Rodney Dangerfield

Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes. — Robert Love

As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies. — Wally Lamb

I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better. — Mae West