Memperdayakan Quotes & Sayings

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned. — Anais Nin

I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money. — La India

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it. — Mika Brzezinski

When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation. — Al Franken

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen

The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason. — Liu Xia

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. — Nhat Hanh

A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments. — Charlie Munger

Sweetheart." He let out a serrated breath. "You tempt me just by being in the same room with me. — Lisa Kleypas

You really are Captain Oblivious. — Lee Davidson

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. — Lord Chesterfield

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently. — Kathryn Harrison