Warung Kopi Quotes & Sayings

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you. — Baron De Montesquieu

For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The password is a flicker of an eyelash. — Adrienne Rich

Everyone had their levers. Often it was greed. Greed was a reliable old standby. Sometimes it was pride. That was Groat's lever. He desperately wanted promotion; you could see it in his eyes. Find the lever, and then it was plain sailing. — Terry Pratchett

The measure of a man is how he treats the women in his family. — J.D. Vance

She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better. — Orson Scott Card

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan