Norcen Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world. — Andrea Hirata

If you can wake up in a different place. If you can wake up in a different time. Why can't you wake up as a different person? Every — Chuck Palahniuk

The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine. — Bill Gates

The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke. — Jeremy Clarkson

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. — Sonia Johnson

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape. — Oriana Fallaci

Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies — Kim Stanley Robinson