Perolehan Quotes & Sayings

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do. — Philip Kerr

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that. — Jodie Foster

The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Had I been allowed to testify, I would have told them that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the bullet that killed President Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll area. I would have also informed the Warren Commission about the call I received from Lyndon Johnson while we were operating on Lee Harvey Oswald. President Johnson told me that a man in the operating room would get a deathbed confession from Oswald. — Charles A. Crenshaw

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. — Francesca Annis

So... what was the reason to don't be social!???
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Oh, thanks Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution for reminding me. — Deyth Banger

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well. — William Nicholson

Hell, he'd (Nathan/Noah) been around Tehya and his uncle enough to know that Jordan was determined to fight whatever he was feeling for Tehya. He'd been feeling it for six damned years now or more, and still, Jordan didn't dare mention the L word. If he acknowledged it, then he might have to admit it actually existed. — Lora Leigh

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough. — Jessica Alba

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down. — Lawrence Lessig