Perempuan Hebat Quotes & Sayings

He could no more describe the feeling he got from her than you can describe a smell. It's like the scorch of electricity. It's like burnt kernels of wheat. No, it's like a bitter orange. I give up. — Alice Munro

There is no more useless activity than that of periodization, the packaging of history, in particular cultural history, into discrete eras - the Jazz Age, the Greatest Generation, the Eisenhower years, the Sixties. Such periods can never be honestly articulated without recourse to so many demurrals and arbitrary demarcations, and the granting of so many exceptions, as to render them practically useless for any kind of serious historical purpose. In times of supposed license, repression reigns freely all around; in eras renowned for their conventionality, oddballs and freaks hoist their banners high. — Michael Chabon

What little light was left inside me flickered out. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart. — Alexander MacLaren

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape ... — Alain De Botton

I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on. — Ted Cruz

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living. — B.B. Wynter

I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window. — James Richardson

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires ... — Dean Koontz

There is nothing that so satisfactorily unites individuals who have been so unfortunate as to quarrel amongst themselves as a strong mutual dislike for some definite person. — P.G. Wodehouse

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me. — Dominique Wilkins

When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid. — Patrick Rothfuss

The government's drug laws were at best proven ineffectual every day and at worst were misguidedly focused on supply rather than demand, randomly conceived and unevenly and unfairly enforced based on race and class, and thus intellectually and morally bankrupt. And those things all were true. — Piper Kerman