Tugu Mandiri Quotes & Sayings

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television. — Radiohead

A leadership disposition guides you to take the path of most resistance and turn it into the path of least resistance. — Dov Seidman

Commitment. Someone who'll go the distance. I need somebody with staying power who'll make me go weak in the knees. Commitment. And everything that goes with it. I need honor and love in my life from somebody who's playing for keeps ... — LeAnn Rimes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'
- Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet". — Arthur Conan Doyle

For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence. — Simone De Beauvoir

Secular folks have no opinion about God's existence; they're busy with other matters. But a secular mystic would say, "The question is not 'Does God exist?' It's rather, 'What do we mean by 'God? — Victoria Zackheim

Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life? — Lilian Whiting

In Nam, the jungle's heat was heavy, and like a spoiled overweight child, it insisted on being carried everywhere. — Billy O'Connor

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; — Walt Whitman

I didn't know what to say, but one thing was for sure: The Bank of Ted was closed. — Pete Hautman

The Looming Tower. — Jeremy Scahill

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas. — Michel Onfray

You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection ... It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity ... because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight. — Archie Kalokerinos

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support
from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community
are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs. — Sheila Kamerman

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty. — Marianne Williamson