Mamah Muda Quotes & Sayings

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar. — Charles Bukowski

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have won only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have taken nothing; they have received.5 It is that they lack the concrete means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition. They have no past, no history, no religion of their own; and unlike the proletariat, they have no solidarity of labor or interests; they even lack their own space that makes communities of American blacks, the Jews in ghettos, or the workers in Saint-Denis or Renault factories. They live dispersed among men, tied by homes, work, economic interests, and social conditions to certain men - fathers or husbands - more closely than to other women. As bourgeois women, they are in solidarity with bourgeois men and not with women proletarians; as white women, they are in solidarity with white men and not with black women. — Simone De Beauvoir

Love has no ad hoc principle; it is universal. — Debasish Mridha

Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife. — Edward Thomas

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes you know you've made the right decision, simply because of how hard it is. — Sara J. Henry

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure. — Kate Mara

My affections are one thing you won't be stealing." "A pity, that. A kiss then, Majesty, for your Gallant Knight?" he asked, looking up at her through his lashes in the manner that had devastated many a heart before hers. "Surely, you can grant me that. Or will such an act put you in irons once again? — Danelle Harmon

If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies. — Catherine Stock

Trout might have said, and it can be said of me as well, that he created caricatures rather than characters. His animus against so-called mainstream literature, moreover, wasn't peculiar to him. It was generic among writers of science fiction. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. — Charles De Saint-Evremond