Kepasrahan Hidup Quotes

#1. In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings ... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

John Dewey

#2. The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.

J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

#4. Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Courting is always difficult when the one being courted has an elderly female relative in the house; they tend to mutter or cackle or bum cigarettes or, in the worst cases, get out the family photograph album, an act of aggression in the sex war which ought to be banned by a Geneva Convention.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Vivonex (see Chapter 6 for full details). Vivonex is an elemental

Mark Pimentel

#7. It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Josh Billings

#8. The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
Long night clear evening
what are they for?

Akinari Ueda

#9. How many have left a permanent mark, branding you with a story that you will never forget?

Donald Maass

#10. The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

John Quincy Adams

#11. I had tears streaking down my cheeks and everyone was subtly getting the hell out of my way, pulling their children away from me like I was deranged. I'm not going to attack your kid just because I'm crying. Jeez.

R.S. Grey

#12. Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

Ada Leverson

#13. It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

Akhil Sharma

#14. I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

John Updike