Dikala Kita Quotes & Sayings

Kenji pulls up next to me. Nods at Warner. "So this gets you going, huh?"
I'm mortified.
Kenji barks out a laugh.
"I've never seen him in sweatpants before." I try to sound normal. "I've never even seen him in shorts."
Kenji raises an eyebrow at me. "I bet you've seen him in less."
I want to die. — Tahereh Mafi

Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life. — Epictetus

Some people thought that if you put pressure on kids, parents, and teachers and schools, the pressure alone would produce results. It appealed to people who think the quick fix for education is to threaten people. It's not a left-right division. — Deborah Meier

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. — Craig Clevenger

Tenderoni, you've got to be. — Michael Jackson

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. — Willa Cather

Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked. — Steven Soderbergh

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together. — Arnold Adoff

All sens of purpose, of responsibility, indeed of any imaginable future, were removed from her by the deaths of her husband and child. It was they who used to make her life a story, they who seemed to be giving it a beginning, a middle and an end. Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date, full of meaningless events for Colonel Leek to recite when no one's paying attention. For all the use she is to Society, beyond intercepting the odd squirt of sperm that would otherwise have troubled a respectable wife, she might as well be dead. Yet, she exists, and, against the odds, she is happy. — Michel Faber

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life? — Jack LaLanne

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. — Taylor Mali

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor. — Groucho Marx

I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused. — William Joyce