Sungguh Nyata Quotes & Sayings

But though we'll know forward and we've known backward, we will never know the present. This moment and the next one and even the one that would have been right now are gone, already passed, and all we're left with are these tired bodies, the only proof that we've lived through time and survived it. It'll be worth it, though, in the end. — Tahereh Mafi

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure. — Edward Heath

The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing. — Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.' — Janine Di Giovanni

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there. — Gayle Forman

You are not my dream girl.

You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine. — Waylon H. Lewis

Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner

I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be. — Julian Schnabel

Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. — Haskell Wexler

With gloomy face he picked it up And took it to his Mother, Though even he could not suppose That she could make another; For those who perished on the line He did not seem to care, His engine being more to him Than all the people there. And now you see the reason why Our Peter has been ill: He soothes his soul with pigeon-pie His gnawing grief to kill. He wraps himself in blankets warm And sleeps in bed till late, Determined thus to overcome His miserable fate. And if his eyes are rather red, His cold must just excuse it: Offer him pie; you may be sure He never will refuse it. — E. Nesbit

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands. — Lenora Champagne

I want to be in control of my own destiny. — Ray Lamontagne

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done. — Keith Miller

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever — Otep Shamaya

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little. — Mary Karr