Quotes of: Orwell Keyword

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Ethics

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

First Drop of Crimson

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The God of the Machine

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

The Haunting of Hill House

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

The Buddha in the Attic

Sukarno adalah seorang satria. Pejuang seperti satria boleh saja tersungkur, tapi dia akan bangkit kembali. Waktunya tidak lama lagi.

Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

The Brothers K

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;

Cloud Atlas

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Michael Jordan

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the same interests as other kids their age.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

Caitlin Moran

Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.

Clay Shirky

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it. You think it'd be fun.

Greg van Eekhout

There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.

Natsuo Kirino

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

Paul Engle

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

Timothy Noah

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Guru Nanak