Ulang Quotes & Sayings

Animals have this in common with one another: unlike humans they appear to spend every minute of every hour of every day of their lives being themselves. A tree frog (so far as we can ascertain) doesn't wake up in the morning feeling guilty that it was a bad tree frog the night before, nor does it spend any time wishing it were a wallaby or a crane fly. It just gets on with the business of being a tree frog, a job it does supremely well. We humans, well ... we are never content, always guilty, and rarely that good at being what nature asked us to be
Homo sapiens. — Stephen Fry

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. — Ludovico Ariosto

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while. — Ira Glass

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead. — John Martyn

Transformation is something that obsesses me. What is the soul? Is there a difference between something like a soul and something like a self? Is our identity something we construct, or is it organic and natural? There are all kinds of theories. — Christopher Barzak

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile. — John Of Ruysbroeck

Heaven has no idea its Queen is on the edge of suicide. — C.J. Anderson

Even rocket science ain't rocket science nowadays. Not compared to negotiating a relationship anyway. Now why don't they teach you the equations for THAT at college eh? "Oh, just close your eyes, and aim in the general direction. If you get into trouble just press this button which will lower a bottle of The Macallan into your hand and eject your brain clean out of your skull. You'll parachute safely back to earth and definitely will not end up in a screaming mass of smoking hot twisted metal on a hillside somewhere. — Andre The BFG

But the fact is," I continued, "that despite their sadness, and despite my guilt, and despite Egan's anger, I went ahead and did what I needed to do for myself. In the end, it's selfish. — Kate Mulgrew

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note. — Hank Stram

Animals may aid us in our everyday lives, in our dreams, meditations. Since they were created before humans, they are closer to THE SOURCE and can act as allies, guides and familiars in our search for wholeness. - An Inuit woman I — Joan Anderson

He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.

- "Auguries of Innocence — William Blake

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible. — Louis De Broglie

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember. — Angela Lansbury