Kesantunan Bahasa Quotes & Sayings

Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. — Diane Ackerman

I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming.
I think she figured I was joking. — Holly Black

When Francie brought a ticket and a dime back and pushed them across the counter, he gave her the wrapped shirt and two lichee nuts in exchange. Francie loved these lichee nuts. There was a crisp easily broken shell and the soft sweet meat inside. Inside the meat was a hard stone that no child had ever been able to break open. It was said that this stone contained a smaller stone and that the smaller stone contained a smaller stone which contained a yet smaller stone and so on. It was said that soon the stones got so small you could only see them with a magnifying glass and those smaller ones got still smaller until you couldn't see them with anything but they were always there and would never stop coming. It was Francie's first experience with infinity. — Betty Smith

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this? — Dada Bhagwan

Better alone than badly accompanied. — Candace Bushnell

Thus the total armada amounted to 5,333 ships and craft of all types, — Stephen E. Ambrose

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example. — Gary Sheffield

I've never wanted to be a star, never. — Emmanuelle Riva

It's funny,' I noted in the diary, 'how often I seem to build a story around one sentence, nearly always the last one, too. The themes are a bit depressing but I just can't get rid of that. — Daphne Du Maurier

Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy. — Rebecca Makkai

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. — Confucius

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself. — Terence McKenna