Menyengsarakan Quotes & Sayings

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing. — Joe Abercrombie

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done. — Kurt Cobain

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion. — Samuel Johnson

Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis," she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those words more and more with every twist of the knife. Coincidentally, last Tuesday afternoon I was involuntarily exposed to the punch line of an old wise tale that goes something like: "There's beauty that can be found in everything." But why can't the insensitive cunt who said that ever find the courage to look in the mirror? Because poopycock, one might say. — Dave Matthes

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. — Margaret Fuller

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. — Ben Folds

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. — Mitch Kapor

I do what I can with what I've got, but if I don't GET then I can't DO. — Joseph A. Coley

The emotional pattern seems to be something like, "[Karl] Polanyi, a person of the left like me, says many true things, beautifully. Therefore his tales about what happened in economic history must be true." Marx before him got similar treatment. Lately the more eloquent of the environmentalists, such as Wendell Berry, get it too. People want to believe that beauty is truth. A supporting emotional frame on the left arises from the very idea of historical progress: "We must be able to do so much better than this wretched capitalism." It is not true, but it motivates. — Deirdre N. McCloskey

Why? Why are you hitting me?"
He leaned down and looked me right in the face.
"If I didn't hit you Minny, who knows what you become. — Kathryn Stockett

The criminal law is no use to decent people. — George Bernard Shaw