Peserta Big Quotes & Sayings

The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers. — Jacques Barzun

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature. — Tammara Webber

Enlightenment is awakened awareness. — Mark Victor Hansen

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. — George Bernard Shaw

You are here and you can't escape it. Thoughts about why you came to be here and a poor-me mentality will not help you to resolve the situation. You cannot avoid being here now, in this present moment, in this unfortunate predicament. Your choices, lack of choices, or accidental events, have led you to this moment. That cannot be changed no matter how much you think about it. The only things that can be changed in this present moment are your thoughts and actions right now. Take a deep breath and totally accept this moment. — Gudjon Bergmann

I danced on light boxer's feet over to Barrons. "Punch me."
"Don't be absurd."
"Come on, punch me, Barrons."
"I'm not punching you."
"I said, punch--Ow!" He'd decked me. Bones vibrating, my head snapped back. And forward again. I shook it. No pain. I laughed. "I'm amazing! Look at me! I hardly even felt it." I danced from foot to foot, feigning punches at him. "Come on. Punch me again." My blood felt electrified, my body impervious to all injury.
Barrons was shaking his head.
I punched him in the jaw and his head snapped back.
When it came back down his expression said I suffer you to live. "Happy now?"
"Did it hurt?"
"No."
"Can I try again?"
"Buy yourself a punching bag."
"Fight me, Barrons. I need to know how strong I am."
He rubbed his jaw. "You're strong," he said dryly. — Karen Marie Moning

Tragedy was a strong bond, a common denominator that united people in a community of empathy, however different their lives and how they operated as individuals. — Howard Rosenberg

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries. — Jose Manuel Barroso

That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suited
sun like a scotch in hand. — Cecilia Llompart

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny. — George Farquhar

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution. — John Burroughs