Dadang Supriatna Quotes & Sayings

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on. — Phyllis A. Balch

The enormous difference between fighting gender discrimination as opposed to race discrimination is good people immediately perceive race discrimination as evil and intolerable. But when I talked about sex-based discrimination, I got the response, 'What are you talking about? Women are treated ever so much better than men! — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I Have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there. — George MacDonald

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people. — Rae Foley

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you. — Lucretius

Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind. — Yasmin Mogahed

A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

In fact, most of the time, things do not turn out as we expect. But the potential value of unexpected developments is rarely tapped. Instead, when things turn out contrary to our expectations, we go immediately into problem-solving mode and react, or just try harder - without taking the time to see whether this unexpected development is telling us something important about our assumptions. "This more prepared mental state is really where a lot of the longer-term payoff is," says Galloway. — Peter M. Senge