Membangunkan English Quotes & Sayings

Are you rage, wrapped in skin, tight like leather dried in the desert sun?
From: "The Comfort of Black — Carter Wilson

Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau. — Stanley Ho

If the one did not honour his master, and the other did not rejoice in his helper, an (observer), though intelligent, might greatly err about them. — Lao-Tzu

Forestalling pleasure is an inventive technique for getting double — Daniel M. Gilbert

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts. — Michael Schudson

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return — Rob Pike

Scout," said Atticus, "nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything - like snot-nose. It's hard to explain - ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody." "You aren't really a nigger-lover, then, are you?" "I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody . . . I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs. Dubose get you down. She has enough troubles of her own." One — Harper Lee

Our Dreams, not just a Dreams, It can be reality. — Erico Quiambao

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here! — Sia Furler

Sometimes I think my life is nothing but one long process of bodily betrayal. — Jonathan Franzen

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. — Charles Caleb Colton