Ribut Taufan Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. — Muhammad Ali

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're "not at all like yourself but will be soon," but you know you won't. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie. — Robert Black

Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye? — Ray Bradbury

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends. — Charles Caleb Colton

His life had gone by without adventures, without passions, almost without hopes. The facility of dreaming, planted in every man, had never blossomed in the narrow bed of his ambitions. — Guy De Maupassant

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me. — Todd Solondz

He would shoot his adversary in a duel, and go against a bear if need be, and fight off a robber in the forest
all as successfully and fearlessly as L
n, yet without any sense of enjoyment, but solely out of unpleasant necessity, listlessly, lazily, even with boredom. Anger, of course, constituted a progress over L
n, even over Lermontov. There was perhaps more anger in Nikolai Vsevolodovich than in those two together, but this anger was cold, calm, and if one may put it so, reasonable, and therefore the most repulsive and terrible that can be. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things. — Akio Morita

You can never miss your fate," Eleni would always say. "Even if it feels like it, it only means that your fate isn't what you thought. — Andrea Thalasinos

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator. — Chuck Palahniuk