Haldun Dormen Quotes & Sayings

A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure - and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He — Arthur C. Clarke

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.'
'Do I look like a liar?'
'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women. — Milan Kundera

In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are. — Charles Eisenstein

Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job. — Alan Lewis

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it. — Amber Tamblyn

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale. — James Gunn

Each day will be darker and emptier, because she's no longer in it. — E.L. James

Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves. — Munia Khan

Life: composted lessons for our hearts to blossom into our souls. — Soul Dancer

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. — Tom Brokaw

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast. — Jonathan Swift

Denial is a skill I mastered at a young age. Don't think about it. Don't talk about it. Suck it up. Choke it down. — Emma Chase

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space. — Peter Weir

Jesus had understands Jeremiah. Ecclesiastes said only that there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; but Jesus sees that only those who mourn will be comforted (Matt 5:4). Only those who embrace the reality of death will receive the new life. Implicit in his statement is that those who do not mourn will not be comforted and those who do not face the endings will not receive the beginnings. The alternative community knows it need not engage in deception. It can stand in solidarity with the dying, for those are the ones who hope. Jeremiah, faithful to Moses, understood what numb people will never know, that only grievers can experience their experiences and move on. — Walter Brueggemann

That's the oppressive thing about happiness, the way everything is out on the table like an open book: — Herman Koch