Pencarian Data Quotes & Sayings

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story. — Patrick Ness

In Plato's Republic, Socrates expresses great fear about democracy because it is, in his mind, synonymous with freedom. The result is tyranny. But modern times have brought us a different understanding of democracy as an ideal. It is how to give the appearance of democracy yet deny it in practice, ensuring that democracy in its false form gives consent by the people to a small group, the oligarchs. This is accomplished through a combination of the people's silence and a rigged system that changes a working democracy of public participation and deliberation to a charade. — Noam Chomsky

Don't make trouble at the pub tonight, Wayne," the man intoned in response. "My temper is really short." "Temper?" Wayne said, passing him. "That's a funny name for it, mate, but if the ladies like you givin' silly names to your body parts, I ain't gonna say nothin'. — Brandon Sanderson

We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life. — Pete Docter

To win, you have to believe you will win. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. — Voltaire

If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life. — Charlie Trotter

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers. — Howard Schultz

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution. — Mitchell Joachim

The love for God is the love to protect the environment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating ... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal. — Brand Blanshard