Membuka File Quotes & Sayings

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. — Carrie P. Meek

All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind - the culture - has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives. — Annie Dillard

They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan, was a machine of flesh and blood, and Lucy, now, was made of something else, more complex perhaps- but they were the same and ...
They were in love.
Sometimes that was enough. — Lavie Tidhar

She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385) — Jorge Amado

The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which he would have understood in a moment without it; and this makes it look as though the writer had more depth and intelligence than the reader. This is, indeed, one of those artifices referred to above, by means of which mediocre authors unconsciously, and as it were by instinct, strive to conceal their poverty of thought and give an appearance of the opposite. their ingenuity in this respect is really astounding. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict. — Bryant McGill

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. — Victor Hugo

I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days. — Trent Reznor

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for. — Jonny Wilkinson

Be the Woman You Want to Be ... — Diane Von Furstenberg