Mengalungkan Quotes & Sayings

I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world. — Edna Ferber

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low. — Jonathan Swift

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them. — Andrea Tantaros

He had locked her out of his mind and out of his life. She could no longer get through to him, to make him feel the way she used to. He just wanted to forget about her and the way she played on his feelings - the same way she used to play on the guitar, he thought, remembering for a minute. He knew now just how badly she had played the guitar. — Cynthia Voigt

As a longtime journalist, this quote from the delicious Nora Ephron made me smile in recognition of its truth:
Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at the orgy ... everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes. — Nora Ephron

Always keep an open mind, because an open mind is an open door, and an open door is the gateway to everything. — Trevor Forest

I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters. — Sylvia Day

The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society. — Marianne Williamson

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty - and do much more. — Ron Garan