Bertolak Ansur Quotes

#1. Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Giambattista Vico

#2. When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.

Steve Maraboli

#3. We have to learn everything we do.

Philip Pullman

#4. You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources ... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.

Azim Premji

#5. You've always
been skinny,
always will.
I can feel
each
reclusive
bone
poke through,
the bones of
Embarrassment,
Anger,
Relief.
I push some back in,
but leave
Anger
sticking out.

Thalia Chaltas

#6. The irony, and inherent tension, of evolutionary biology is that this search for rational coherence - for "consilience," as Wilson likes to put it - arises as a natural consequence of the nature of evolutionary argument derived from essentially theological argument. This

Abigail Lustig

#7. The important thing to do is not always the right thing to do.
Takeuchi

Yuuki Obata

#8. She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Colum McCann

#9. The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.

Sercan Leylek

#10. The journey was thrilling. Inspiring. Exalting. And, in the end, it did not change a thing. "You would never have believed me if I'd told you," said Sheikh al-Khammas. "You had to learn the truth for yourself: the real Holy City is within.

Michael Golding

#11. Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

Thomas Huxley

#12. Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.

Fennel Hudson

#13. Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

Paul Pearsall

#14. Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Nicholas Brendon