Quotes of Kingsley Amis

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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

- Kingsley Amis

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“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ”

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

“ Enmity builds walls; love builds bridges. Enlightenment is the highway to world peace. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ Nothing that is perfect can be taught ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie