Pasanin Ng Quotes & Sayings

My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do. — Nancy Kassebaum

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet. — Marilyn French

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up. — Brian Dennehy

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away. — Pierce Brosnan

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none? — W. Somerset Maugham

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important. — Rose Tremain

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer. — Boz Scaggs

First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void. — T.D. Jakes

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. — Terry Pratchett

Audiences can get their politics elsewhere. They go to the theater to forget. — Jack Warner

Too many times people portray God as the ultimate judge, waiting to sentence us for our sins. The truth is, he is a loving husband who compels us with his love and not fear. — Jefferson Bethke

I'm dog years away being from okay. — Rainbow Rowell

I started writing as soon as I started reading. — Michael Koryta

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be. — Sally Brampton

Maputo was much praised as a desirable destination, but it was a dreary, beat-up city of desperate people who had cowered there while war raged in the provinces for twenty-five years, destroying bridges, roads, and railways. Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence; I saw no positive results of charitable efforts. But whenever I expressed skepticism about the economy, the unemployment, the potholes, or the petty thievery, people in Maputo said, as Africans elsewhere did, 'It was much worse before.' In many places, I knew, it was much better before. It was hard to imagine how much worse a place had to be for a broken-down city like Maputo to seem like an improvement. — Paul Theroux