Topik Exam Quotes & Sayings

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic. — Moby

I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world. — Hans Rosling

When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change. — Oprah Winfrey

Already she knew that an idea could pain him like a bruise. He had grey eyes that showed every thought, and sometimes Charlotte worried that he might be hurt in some way that she would not be able to prevent. — Lauren Owen

Like a long sighing of wind in trees it begins, then they sweep into sight, borne now upon a cloud of phantom dust. They rush past, forwardleaning in the saddles, with brandished arms, beneath whipping ribbons from slanted and eager lances; with tumult and soundless yelling they sweep past like a tide whose crest is jagged with the wild heads of horses and the brandished arms of men like the crater of the world in explosion. — William Faulkner

The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across. — Philippe Petit

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism. — Amy Waldman

The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar. Lawrence speaks somewhere of drawing 'strength from the depths of the universe'; Malcolm Lowry speaks about the deadness of the stars except when he looked at them with a particular girl; I had neither feeling. The founder of the Jesuits used to spend many hours under the stars; it is hard to be certain whether his first stirrings of scientific speculation or pre-scientific wonder about space and the stars in their own nature were some element in his affinity with starlight, or whether for him they were only a point of departure, but in this matter I think I am about fifty years more modern than Saint Ignatius; stars mean to me roughly what they meant to Donne's generation, a bright religious sand imposing the sense of an intrusion into human language, and arousing a certain personal thirst to be specific. — Peter Levi

We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need. — Steve Maraboli

No more shame, no more insecurity - just the easy give and take between three people who never got bored with unwrapping the many layers of each other's fantasies. You — Kit Rocha

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord. — Paramahansa Yogananda

You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid. — Frederick Lenz

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented. — Scott Rudin