Tumenggung Suryo Quotes & Sayings

There is another physical law that teases me, too: the Doppler Effect. The sound of anything coming at you- a train, say, or the future- has a higher pitch than the sound of the same thing going away. If you have perfect pitch and a head for mathematics you can compute the speed of the object by the interval between its arriving and departing sounds. I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history? Like all falling bodies, it constantly accelerates. But I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a somber sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. — Wallace Stegner

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing. — Chris Prentiss

Has Trey ever told you that he's a virgin?" Reagan asked, stroking Ethan's hair with one hand and Trey's with the other.
Ethan lifted his head and snorted with laughter. "Is today opposite day? — Olivia Cunning

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. — Philip Selznick

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird. — Richie Sambora

Nothing can create more dramatic changes than simple and pure love and compassion. When people pray, their prayers are listened, but the answers manifest in forms that their selfishness blinds them to see. — Robin Sacredfire

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society. — Pope Francis

My works are an imitation of my own past and present. — Barbara Hepworth

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours. — Maxwell Grantly

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are. — Stewart Udall