Makanannya Bebek Quotes & Sayings

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation ... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art. — Robert Gober

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over. — Arthur Koestler

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. — Hunter S. Thompson

Everything has an end. — Nicholas Lea

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad. — Jenny Colgan

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. — Ludwig Von Mises

When the ride was being designed, it was assumed that Kuka's robotic programming could easily produce the various movements called for in each scene. What nobody considered, however, is that the program was designed for maximum industrial efficiency. If, to correspond to the action in a given scene, the Kuka arm had to simulate 22 different motions, the software - not knowing a theme park ride from a diesel assembly line - would think, "OK, let's knock these 22 movements down to 13 and save half a minute." Because this would throw the timing of everything out of whack, Universal ended up having to create a program that would behave as it was told and not be so anal about efficiency. Luckily for us, Universal worked out the kinks, and Forbidden Journey is now remarkably reliable for such an advanced attraction. — Seth Kubersky

I didn't bother to argue the point with him. "Will you tell me why Matthew owed you a debt?"

"I kept a secret for him."

Was I finally going to discover this connection between the two? "And that would be. . . ?"

". . . not a secret if I told you."

"But he reneged."

Aric's lips curled. "And yet I do not."

Dead end. — Kresley Cole

People always say
chocolate makes
everything better.
I say friends make everything better. — Lisa Schroeder

In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn't correct me. He didn't punish me. He didn't push me away emotionally. Caleb was there to hold me until the nightmares passed. He was there to tell me I was beautiful. He was there to tell me I was going to be okay. In the dark, he seduced me. I didn't want the seduction to end. — C.J. Roberts

It's like a buffet, basically. Like this really expensive buffet, except also you have to eat all of what's on your plate or they expel you. So conceptually that's kind of fucked up. If that happened at real buffets, that would be incredible. If you were like, 'Hmm, this moo shu pork has kind of a chalky dirt taste,' and then some enormous Chinese guy is like, 'EAT IT OR WE WILL GIVE YOU AN F, AND ALSO WE WILL KICK YOU OUT OF THE RESTAURANT,' that just doesn't seem like a good business model. — Jesse Andrews

That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades. — Jim Butcher

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. — Denis Diderot