Perlunya Statistik Quotes & Sayings

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. — Patti Smith

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself; Nathanael West perceived that, in The Day of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination most indelibly were the fires. For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it would be in the end. Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. — Joan Didion

The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was. — Mary Jo White

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. — Sidney Lanier

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone. — Rand Paul

I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either. — Emeraude Toubia

Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom. — Swami Vivekananda

Fall has arrived and has already begun to put everything into a deep sleep; flies and other insects have suffered their first setback, and up in the trees and down on the ground you can hear the sounds of struggling life, puttering , ceaselessly rustling, laboring not to perish. — Knut Hamsun

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. — Carl Sagan

Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life. — Solomon Woytowich