Dua Sisi Quotes & Sayings

I tried to cooperate with grace, which is to say, I did not turn on the TV. — Anne Lamott

I met a girl who sang the blues
and I asked her for some happy news,
but she just smiled and turned away.
And the three men I admire most,
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,
They caught the last train to the coast
The day the music died. — Don McLean

I found I could not not let the words flow. — Janet Bode

Words express only the feelings we know already. — Marthe Bibesco

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old. — Richard Dawkins

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? — Robin Hobb

I am as true as anything you have ever seen. A dying child, abandoned by the world. And I say this: there is nothing truer. Nothing. Flee from me if you can. I promise I will haunt you. This is my only purpose now, the only one left to me. I am history made alive, holding on but failing. I am everything you would not think of, belly filled and thirst slaked, there in all your comforts surrounded by faces you know and love. But hear me. Heed my warning. History has claws. — Steven Erikson

The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us. — Beeban Kidron

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. — Leo Tolstoy

The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial influence which they exert upon the arts, are counted among the most useful and extraordinary inventions. — Louis Daguerre

Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork. — Haruki Murakami

It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner. — W. Somerset Maugham

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners. — Rudolph Rummel