1965 Quotes

“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
― Malcolm X

“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Frank Herbert , Dune

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
― Albert Einstein

“No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope."
"I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men are killers and
your worst men are
selling them
bullets”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

“Its powers?' Dallben answered with a sad smile. 'My dear boy, this is a bit of metal hammered into a rather unattractive shape; it could better have been a pruning hook or a plow iron. Its powers? Like all weapons, only those held by him who wields it. What yours may be, I can in no wise say.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Kekalahan di bidang politik adalah kesalahan hidup secara habis-habisan dan akibatnya bahkan tertanggung juga oleh sanak-famili.”
― Ahmad Tohari, Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk

“La desgracia de Adam Appleby era que, en cuanto despertaba del sueño, su conciencia se inundaba inmediatamente de todo aquello en lo que menos deseaba pensar. Tenía la impresión de que otros hombres se enfrentaban a cada nuevo amanecer con la mente y el corazón renovados, llenos de optimismo y decisión; o bien de que se arrastraban ganduleando durante la primera hora del día en un estado de bendito sopor, incapaces de pensar en nada, ni agradable ni desagradable. Pero, agazapados como arpías en torno a su cama, los pensamientos desagradables esperaban para asaltarle tan pronto como Adam parpadease y abriera los ojos. En aquel momento se veía obligado, como alguien que se ahoga, a examinar su vida entera, dividido entre lamentaciones por el pasado y miedos futuros.”
― David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down

“When the cathedrals fall, my work is done!”
― Meher Baba

“Adam había sacado la conclusión que, de todas las industrias del país, la reparación de vespas era la que representaba una mayor sobredemanda respecto a la oferta. En teoría, a quien se dispusiese a satisfacer esa demanda le esperaba una fortuna; pero en el fondo de su corazón Adam dudaba de que las vespas fuesen reparables, en el sentido normal del término; eran las mariposas de la carretera, organismos frágiles que tardaban mucho en ser fabricados y muy poco en morir.”
― David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down

“Una curva de la calle puso ante su vista el campanario de la catedral de Westminster, la forma fálica más descarada del horizonte londinense.”
― David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down

“Do we really need ourselves for anything?”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Monday Starts on Saturday

“It was 1969, and for all the girls and women I knew, life changed profoundly in those four years of college. In 1965 we entered, most of us virginally, as freshmen in knee socks and loafers, looking for husbands and studying art history. We graduated in bell-bottoms and white armbands, taking the Pill and attempting to save the world.”
― Rebecca Eaton, Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS

“...At the moment I am in LA, or possibly only think I am, and who knows for how long...
later,
Pyn~chon~”
― Thomas Pynchon

“Damn it, damn it, damn it. I need people. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“You can't fight the whole human race simply because you see your thoughts and actions and your potential thoughts and actions mirrored within them, so live with them. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Crap. Before one starts this fighting, one has to sort a few things out, such as one's bloody morality. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“What if one's view is right or wrong? What is good or bad, and why? Things I must define more clearly – this is something lacking in me.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“I am Gordon Roddick, 23 years of age. Screw behaviour patterns. Serenity. This pen, too. It's no bloody good.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Forgiveness was never a big part of the deal. Clarity of purpose, great journeys, unequal struggle, dogged persistence, moments of deep despair, mountainous odds stacked against the hero. The glimmer of light, the one true test. ”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“I had arrived with a thirst for adventure, adventure of any description. I was a stupid 23-year‑old boy looking for trouble. What trouble looked like, I had no idea.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Be last at everything. Nobody will have any expectations.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1965

“Come here now, sit down, and listen:
the ghosts are here to testify."
—"Origin of a Disaster”
― Jeddie Sophronius, Interrogation Records: Poems