Uyuyan Adam Quotes & Sayings

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. — Frank Gehry

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents. — Abraham Lincoln

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. — Tom Stoppard

I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had to become, in order not to follow those we loved into the next world. We grew hard. We became impenetrable, sparing of our pity. Sorrows that leveled other people were small to us. We made no move to avoid pain. Sometimes we even welcomed it--we were clumsy with knives, fire, boiling water, steel traps. Pain took our minds off the greater pain that was the mistake that we still existed. — Louise Erdrich

The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what you did or did not do in private life was taken for granted - which is hardly imaginable now - and toleration was not, as it is today, deplored as a weakness and debility, but was praised as an ethical force. — Stefan Zweig

I have forgotten everything - he has made me forget everything - except for his scent, his sounds, his taste, his touch. — K. Bromberg

From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue. — Sun Tzu

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life. — Marg Helgenberger

I'm a lying liar who lies. — Kelley York

I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency is above politics. — Tony Tan

Nothing can destroy your inner peace except your uncontrolled thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past. — Juice Newton