Teppen Korean Quotes & Sayings

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. — Patti Smith

What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like. — Brian Posehn

Maybe the consequences of someone's unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason? — Igor Eliseev

People who get this kind of result are ... " She looks over her shoulder like she expects someone to appear behind her. " ... are called ... Divergent." She says the last word so quietly that I almost don't hear it, and her tense, worried look returns. — Veronica Roth

why are we so monumentally slow? — Naomi Shihab Nye

Good can exist without evil,
but evil cannot exist without good.
The former is eternal,
the latter is temporal. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Mothers should tell little girls and boys about the importance of dreams,' Aunt Habiba said. 'They give a sense direction. It is not enough to reject this courtyard
you need to have a vision of the meadows with which you want to replace it.' But how, I asked Aunt Habiba, could you distinguish among all the wishes, all the cravings which besieged you, and find the one on which you ought to focus, the important dream that gave you vision? She said that little children had to be patient, the key dream would emerge and bloom within, and then, from the intense pleasure it gave you, you would know that that it was the genuine little treasure which would give you direction and light. (p. 214) — Fatema Mernissi

you judge someone and think they are bad, you are not giving love. And in thinking that someone else — Rhonda Byrne

A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature, towards enlightenment. Of course once you are enlightened, you have gone beyond the discrimination of sexes. Beyond enlightenment, you are simply human beings. But before that ... Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness. Man is not in a better position than woman as far as religious experience is concerned. — Rajneesh

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. — John Edensor Littlewood

For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My father's corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years. — Lisa Kessler

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated. — Jurgen Habermas

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed. — David O. Selznick