Titik Temu Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment. — Svetlana Alexievich

It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. — Debasish Mridha

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. — Georges Duhamel

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. — Haruki Murakami

When, in the street, I see a mother walking with her grown-up daughter, I can hardly bear to witness the mother's pride, the softening of her face, her incredulous joy at being granted her daughter's company; and the iron discipline she imposes on herself, to muffle and conceal this joy. — Helen Garner

In this country, two things stand first in rank: your flag and your mail. You all know what honor you pay to your flag, but you should know, also, that your mail, - just that ordinary postal card - is also important. But a postal card, or any form of mail, is not important, in that way, until you drop it through a slot in this building, and with a stamp on it, or into a mail box outdoors. Up to that instant it is but a common card, which anybody can pick up and carry off without committing a criminal act. But as soon as it is in back of this partition, or in a mail box, a magical transformation occurs; and anybody who now should willfully purloin it, or obstruct its trip in any way, will find prison doors awaiting him. What a frail thing ordinary mail is! A baby could rip it apart, but no adult is so foolish as to do it. That small stamp which you stick on it, is, you might say, a postal official, going right along with it, having it always in his sight. — Ernest Vincent Wright

Sorry to hear about your Dad."
He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him."
"Heart attack?"
"He was hit by a Pizza Express truck. — J.A. Konrath

Science has the answer to every question that can be asked. However, science reserves the right to change that answer should additional data become available. — Mary Roach

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul. — D.H. Lawrence

London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high. — Henry James

I have learned that acting is not about beauty. — Vincent Cassel

McGlade is a bit, um, abrasive," Jack said. "If he says something rude, you have to promise not to kill him." I smiled. Jack didn't. "I'm serious. Promise me." "I promise. I don't kill people just because they're rude." "Yeah, well, that's because you haven't met Harry yet." She — J.A. Konrath

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other. — Tom Metzger