Li Kuan Yew Quotes & Sayings

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started. — Jodi Picoult

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am. — Warren Buffett

Well let the geek in the pink take a stab at it
If you like the way i'm thinkin' baby wink at it^o* — Jason Mraz

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. — Herman Melville

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. — George Hickenlooper

I've got the love that's yours as long as you do what you're told, the love that worries it's not good enough, the love that worries that it'll be found out, the love that fears being judged and found lacking, the love that's almost - but not quite - strong enough, the love that makes you feel they're better than you — Andrew Kaufman

Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance. — Theodor W. Adorno

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't. — Veronica Roth

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated. — Rod Serling

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. — Gustave Flaubert

We must have a religion - it goes without saying - but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty free sects, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition. That wasn't law; it wasn't gospel: it was only an opinion - my opinion, and I was only a man, one man: so it wasn't worth any more than the pope's - or any less, for that matter. — Mark Twain

If they can play eight more years, then I can too. I'm in better shape than they are. — Teemu Selanne

No labor is hopeless. — Philibert Joseph Roux