Isang Dipang Quotes & Sayings

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters. — George F. Kennan

I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my breast. I waked with a scream. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

I'm telling you, it's fucking hard to be classy, she said. T — Janet Evanovich

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end. — Bjork

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it. — John Zorn

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it. — Eben Alexander

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin

As you can hear, it's difficult to learn another language after forty. — Edmund White

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. — Arthur Rimbaud

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. — John James Ingalls

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller. — Erskine Caldwell

One bee cannot build a hive; one ant cannot build a colony. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and gas, consumer products, and industrial products. If there's anything that I want to know more about, I have the opportunity. It's right in our portfolio. I can spend time at the factory or with the manangement and learn as much as I want. You can't get bored doing that. — Henry Kravis

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. — Oliver Goldsmith

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? — William Cowper