Goenawan Muhamad Quotes & Sayings

I swear on my life that I do not do these things on purpose, — Rachel Vincent

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging. — Stanley Wolpert

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward. — Rudyard Kipling

If you want success the you must become aware of the cause of success. — Christopher Dines

She died without regaining consciousness and without pain they say, and whatever they mean by that since it has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak, since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well. And if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumable finality, I do not know it. — William Faulkner

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb — Peter Gabriel

The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years. — Tillie Olsen

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. — Taylor Swift

And when they were elected, they arrived in Washington with absolutely no idea what to do. Their only goal had already been achieved: They had won their campaign. However, — David Baldacci

They say when you die, your life flashes before your eyes.
It's true.
Except all I can see is Cole.
Because he was my life. — Jenn Cooksey

One could argue that the clash of monotheisms is the inevitable result of monotheism itself. Whereas a religion of many gods posits many myths to describe the human condition, a religion of one god tends to be monomythic; it not only rejects all other gods, it rejects all other explanations for God. If there is only one God, then there may be only one truth, and that can easily lead to bloody conflicts of irreconcilable absolutisms. — Reza Aslan

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind. — RuPaul

I said: All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with ... — Dashiell Hammett

MS's love For you: it Sleeps With the Fishes — John Green

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff. — Sidney Crosby