Siong Lim Quotes & Sayings

When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

(If we were caught pointing at a map with a finger, instead of a blade of grass or something sharp, we had been threatened, by the unforgettable Sgt Taff, that he would 'Rip that finger off and beat you to death with the soggy end!' It's a threat that I enjoy passing on to my boys when we are reading a map together nowadays.) — Bear Grylls

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth. — Seth Godin

Mrs. Hanks taught that everybody's bodies were exactly the same. She was ignorant and didn't think much about things, but she was teaching her students to be ignorant too. She was teaching them the wrong thing. — Jesse Haubert

It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind. — Christine Caine

Whether or not the person I think of as me undergoes any essential changes, the earth never stops circling the sun at it's old speed. — Haruki Murakami

Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us. — Pope John Paul II

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals. — Steven Spielberg

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. — Edmund Spenser

After the slowing, every action required a little more force than it used to. The physics had changed. Take, for example, the slightly increased drag of a hand on a knife or a finger on a trigger. From then on, we all had a little more time to decide what not to do. And who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of a regret? But the new gravity was not enough to overcome the pull of certain other forces, more powerful, less known
no law of physics can account for desire. — Karen Thompson Walker

I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies. — George MacDonald

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets. — Giacomo Leopardi

They listen to the music of idiots and amuse themselves with the sordid miseries of their businesses. They are not the things of angels or of any higher outpost that humanity might aspire to. Your loathsome vomitous businessman king is of the lowest order, his advisors crumbling mockeries of education driven by avarice. My love, dress them in the suits of mockery, and in their advanced state of stupidity and senility, burn and destroy them, so their ashes might join the compost which they so much deserve. — Lou Reed

Many supervisors will tell you what they want are people with energy, initiative, and imagination, but in reality, they feel threatened by people who have different views from theirs, and thus discourage or diminish those who carry bad news or make mistakes. Those who expect to harness the power and muscle of stallions must be self-confident, open-minded, intellectually honest, and also humble. — Lim Siong Guan

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader. — Denis Markell

There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth. — U.G. Krishnamurti