Semesta Teknika Quotes & Sayings

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. — Ross Macdonald

Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation? — Robert Kennedy

I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence) — William Cavanaugh

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this. It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important.
He said that when things were really going well we should be sure to NOTICE it. He was talking about simple occasions, not great victories: maybe drinking lemonade on a hot afternoon in the shade, or smelling the aroma of a nearby bakery; or fishing, and not caring if we catch anything or not, or hearing somebody all alone playing a piano really well in the house next door.
Uncle Alex urged me to say this out loud during such epiphanies: If this isn't nice, what is? — Kurt Vonnegut

Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don't respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else. — Lady Gaga

Ennesby, get the Serial Peacemaker to the beach for dustoff."
"Dustoff? You're going to run away from three guys?"
"No, I'm going to kill or capture those three guys, and then run away from the Police. — Howard Tayler

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa. — Michele Bachmann

Wrapping his hand up in her ponytail, he gently but firmly tugged until she lifted her face to his. If I'm going to be in your bed, Sophie, you're mine for the duration. — Jill Shalvis

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered. — Angie Martinez

I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia. — Ronnie Coleman

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman. — Kami Garcia

That as far as I can tell," Jenkins said, "it's not actually a very good show. — John Scalzi

In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second. — Dan Hill

The sinner prides himself on his independence, completely overlooking the fact that he is the weak slave of the sins that rule his members. — A.W. Tozer