Pranata Laboratorium Quotes & Sayings

209. He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation. — Anonymous

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. — Lucille Ball

You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine ... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be. — Rudolf Virchow

I love you, more, I think, than I know, but our kind of love isn't a sword. It's a light. Not a fire. A small light, just bright enough to read love letters by and keep the animals at a growling distance. In time it will go out. All lights go out. So do all fires, if it's any comfort. Love me, and look at me, and remember me, as I'll remember you. — Peter S. Beagle

My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense. — Paula Creamer

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument. — John Berger

When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget. — Drea Damara

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal. — Ernest Becker

Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man. — Mencius

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life. — Yiyun Li

DON'T TRY TO COMMUNICATE BY E-MAIL: APPLY THE RULE OF THREE Apply the rule of three: as soon as three mails are exchanged on a subject and it's still not settled or whenever there is the slightest suspicion that it will take more than three e-mails to get an agreement, pick up the phone, go and meet, or have a conference call. — Theo Compernolle