Membela Ikan Quotes & Sayings

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty. — Boy George

The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was. — Jonathan Franzen

All wars leave a legacy of bitterness and hatred, but internecine conflicts create the deepest scars. There is something different about such intrafamilial conflicts. People who once were part of one national family divide, define each other as the hateful enemy, and aim for the jugular. On both sides of an internecine conflict there is a feeling of betrayal, a sense that those who were brothers or sisters have been traitorous to their commitments or to the nation [1]. — Paul D. Escott

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.' — C.S. Lewis

I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush. — Christopher Buckley

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other. — Michael Scott

We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit. — Martin Winterkorn

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion. — Louise Colet

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time. — Denis Leary

You know, everyone has a past. Sometimes, it's what makes us who we are, but sometimes, it lets us know who we don't ever want to be. I'm not sure what your past has been like, but I do know it doesn't have to be your future. — L. Wilder

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned. — John Irving

If you ask me why I came to Iowa, I would say that Iowa is beautiful in the way that any place is beautiful: if you treat it as the answer to a question you're asking yourself every day, just by being there. — Nam Le

I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry. — Aditi

Twig-minx!" it screamed. "scrap-brat! — Frances Hardinge

No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan