Alex: One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts. I could never stand to se...
Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. Jane: Goodyear? Frank: No, the worst.
Leigh Anne Touhy: Sean and I have been talking and Michael, if you're gonna accept a football scolarship we think it should be to Tennesee. And I promise that I will be at every game cheering for you. Michael Oher: Every game. Leigh Anne Touhy: Every...
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or ...
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we ...
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, ...
For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. "Look out, Al-Qaeda---patriot on board!" I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.
The Wolf: Strip. Jules: All the way? The Wolf: To your bare ass. Vincent: Is this necessary? The Wolf: Yes. You know what you guys look like? Jules: What? The Wolf: Like a couple of guys who just blew off somebody's head! [to Jimmie] The Wolf: Now Ji...
Chef: [after having encountered a tiger in the jungle, returning to the boat, and proceeding into a nervous breakdown] You can have the whole goddamn fuckin' shit, man! You can kiss my ass in the county square cause I'm fuckin' buggin' out! I didn't ...
You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capabl...
It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they were on show: so many of them seemed to be wearing costumes, not just policemen and firemen and waiters and shop assistants, but people i...
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not...
Sering kita menundukkan kepala karena sedih dan malu atas tragedy kemanusiaan sebagai akibat pertalutang (elit) politik 1965. Jutaan orang telah menjada korban pembunuhan, penyiksaan, pemenjaraan, dan peminggiran. Karen alas an politik pula mereka ti...
Tak ada orang progresif yang berpikiran sehat akan menentang cita-cita komunis, yang mencakup bantuan di bidang sosial dan ekonomi. Kami menyetujui ini semua. Tetapi aku tidak mungkin meninggalkan Tuhan. Aku tidak mungkin membuang nasionalisme dan ak...
Pasti ada korban pada setiap peperangan. Tugas seorang panglima adalah memenangkan peperangan, bahkan jika itu terpaksa mengalami kekalahan dalam beberapa pertempuran di dalam perjalanan. Bila aku terpaksa mengorbankan ribuan jiwa demi menyelamatkan ...
Aku telah melakukan kesalahan dalam hidupku. Di masa silam aku telah mengakuinya dan pengakuan itu menimbulkan kekuatan. Tetapi keberanian dari seseorang terletak pada keyakinannya bahwa dia telah bertindak benar. Aku tidak akan hidup, jika tidak yak...
Aku tidak begitu memikirkan benda-benda duniawi seperti uang. Hanya orang yang tak pernah menghirup apinya nasionalisme dapat larut dalam hal-hal sepele seperti itu. Kemerdekaan adalah makanan yang membuat aku hidup. Ideologi, idealisme. Makanan dari...
My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano. These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkn...
Tidak mengapa kalau kau patah hati, tidak mengapa kalau kau kecewa, atau menangis tergugu karena harapan, keinginan memiliki, tapi jangan berlebihan. Jangan merusak diri sendiri. Selalu pahami, cinta yang baik selalu mengajari kau agar menjaga diri. ...
Seharusnya aku sudah tahu, bahwa dia memang sudah berubah. Hanya saja, aku sulit merelakan. Sulit memberi tahu diri sendiri bahwa semua orang bisa berubah, dan aku harus menerimanya. Namun, yang menyakitkan ternyata bukan kenyatan bahwa aku harus mel...
Setiap orang tahu, bahwa pada umumnya gadis Jawa tidak diberitahu mengenai rencana perkawinan yang dibuat para pelindungnya untuknya. Dalam daerah Pasundan boleh jadi betul, bahwa anak perempuan dan anak muda yang bertunangan bisa saling mengenal, me...
