Diksi Dalam Quotes & Sayings

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. — Quentin Crisp

How many times must I tell that lad never to settle himself with his back to a door? — Frank Herbert

Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged ... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually. — Martin Amis

Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit. — Frederick Lenz

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us. — Tim O'Brien

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only through pain can you be sure of the truth — Megan Whalen Turner

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. — Brian Jacques

The Christians made mental phenomena into independent beings, their own feelings into qualities of things, the passions which governed them into powers which governed the world, in short, predicates of their own nature, whether recognised as such or not, into independent, subjective existences. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Funny things, aren't they? People. They only believed in what they could see. Appearances were all that mattered, and no one would ever care what she was like on the inside. No one cared that she was breaking apart. — Amy Zhang

I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.' — Jack Kerouac

My heart is yours. Yours to celebrate, worship, possess, cradle; yours to shatter, lock away, use, own. Your definition of love is yours, as is my heart. — Steven Budden