Junak 806 Quotes & Sayings

Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this. — Michelangelo

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

The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they merely wanted the gesture of her presence. They had not read her blog but they had heard that she was a "leading blogger" about race. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than. — Rob Pike

If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change — Tara Fela-Durotoye

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. — John Gierach

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man. — A. N. Wilson

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life. — Cary Fukunaga

And our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool with laughter — Charles Bukowski