Dikurniakan Quotes & Sayings

The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism. — Jimmy Carter

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me. — Bret Easton Ellis

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. — Pliny The Younger

A pig painted gold is still a pig. — Robert Jordan

And this - this is the moment. The moment I let myself fall completely in love with her. — Jay McLean

Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the religious institutions. This split in public values produced or was accompanied by, as it was bound to be, an equally artificial and ugly division in people's lives, so that a man, while pursuing Heaven with the sublime appetite he thought of as his soul, could turn his heart against his neighbors and his hands against the world ...
Though Heaven is certainly more important than the earth if all they say about it is true, it is still morally incidental to it and dependent on it, and I can only imagine it and desire it in terms of what I know of the earth.
(pg. 23, "A Native Hill") — Wendell Berry