Pembicaraan Persuasif Quotes & Sayings

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. — Chow Yun-Fat

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. — Robert Breault

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. — Doseone

Religion has no power if God is not truly 'dangerous,' but religion also seeks to manage God, and make God safe.
The second commandment speaks against the management of God. We cannot help but make our images of God, for God has given us imagination. But every image we make of God is finally a box: a cage, potentially an idol, from which the living God keeps breaking out. And if we try to keep God there, then God comes out with 'jealousy' to overturn our careful construction.
The third commandment speaks against the management of God. To take God's name in vain is to make God useful to our projects and ourselves. We are wont to trivialize the truth of God and then disparage it for being trivial. We are told God's name in order to love this God, but loving God is not managing God but fearing [respecting] God. And with God, the attitudes of love and fear [respect] are not contradictory but complementary. — Daniel James Meeter

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.' — Gurinder Chadha

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. — Robert Scheer

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. — David Cone

It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable. — Tom Coburn

I didn't say anything. I just took his hand in mine, and laid it over my heart that was still pounding wildly in my chest. I wasn't sure why I did it, or where my logic went in that particular moment. Maybe I wanted him to know that he wasn't alone in the way he felt and that the kiss had reignited something in me, as well. I didn't know for sure. — Monica Alexander

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing. — Paula Modersohn-Becker

Then why did you risk everything to be with him?
Because your son is so goddamn beautiful.
Ha. I assure you, looks aren't forever.
Oh, I know.
I wasn't talking about his looks. — Brian K. Vaughan

And then he realized that the thing that was blocking his passage was cleared, and he was falling; his body had begun its short earthly flight - which it completed almost instantaneously - before Yogesh Murthy's soul was released for its much longer flight over the oceans of the other world. — Aravind Adiga

He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it. — Rachel Joyce

You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt. — Ayn Rand