2017 Quotes

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where working hard at it makes you happy, and where you're happy to work hard at it.”
― Tom Fletcher

“Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.”
― Stephen King

“A lot can be changed in a span of a year. A thousand lives can be moulded, a lot many lessons can be learnt and life can show its unpredictability. Even so, one year is enough to prove to yourself that you are worth the struggle that you undertake just to reap a momentary fruit of that labour. If fighting a new fight keeps us motivated each year, so be it. Here is wishing every fighter, struggling to make a break and succeed in life a memorable New Year. Do what you do best and don't trade your passion for fame but rather earn the fame through your passion. May your fight be fruitful this year and your name engraved in hearts of horde in the form of your work.

A Happy New Year to all my well wishers, peers, friends, colleagues, acquaintances and readers. May your year be blessed with good fortune and health with added wealth.

My message this New Year is that in a world full of possibilities never limit yourself to the sky for what is sky when there is endless darkness beyond to lighten up. Take care.”
― Adhish Mazumder

“It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't breathe.
Can't breathe. Can't breathe!”
― Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris

“I've never had a moment when I thought: "Tom, you've made it!", and I don't think I want to, because that feels like you've reached the end; that you've crossed the finish line. But to me there is no end. An achievement is not a finish line; it's a checkpoint on a far greater journey. It's a moment to pause, to take a breath and look back and enjoy what you've experienced and be grateful for it, but then to turn around and look towards the next checkpoint, the next achievement.”
― Tom Fletcher

“Live your life with the will, to understand life.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Future is awesome. All we have to do now is to build it.”
― Radovan Kavický

“I am wildness and madness made flesh. You're just a girl"–he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“You may have the greatest vision, plans or goals as you may term it. You can call it Vison 2020, Vision 2045 or whatever. But remember, not work is done unless a distance is covered!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.”
― Garry Kasparov

“Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.”
― Donald J. Trump

“We shouldn't just make a difference in people's lives, but we must learn how to accept differences.”
― Henry Johnson Jr, Liberian Son

“Symphony of the air
my ear can hear
my only companion
a rocking chair
silence is master
wishing you were here.”
― PSYHEEL

“I am wilderness and madness made flesh. You are just a girl" –he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“September 3rd, 2017, the Italian Grand Prix on the F1 Ferrari team radio, Alonso asked: "Where's Palmer?"
"Retired" the team reply
"Karma" said Alonso”
― Fernando Alonso

“Taabini hii ni ngumu sana kwangu kuandika pamoja na kwamba ni miaka mitatu kamili toka giza liingie. Mwaka 2014, Novemba 4, nilimpoteza bibi yangu mpendwa, Martha Maregesi, aliyefariki dunia kutokana na ukongo wa kiharusi, na tutamkumbuka daima.

Alikuwa na roho ya kipekee; na kifo chake kiliwagusa wengi, pamoja na kwamba aliishi maisha kamili, zaidi ya siku 25550, siku 5110 zaidi, ambazo ndizo tulizopangiwa na Mungu.

Mapenzi ya mtu kwa bibi yake ni mapenzi ya kipekee. Nadhani Mungu aliwapa mabibi wote uwezo maalumu wa kuwapenda wajukuu zao, na kufanya maisha yao yatimie, kuwafanya wawe binadamu wazuri na wenye maadili mema.

Alichangia pakubwa katika malezi yangu ya utotoni; na aghalabu naweza kukumbuka nikiwa naye jikoni akipika, huku mimi nikifanya kazi nyingine, lakini wakati huohuo akinifundisha mambo kadha wa kadha ya kunikomaza kimaisha. Bibi hakuwa tu bibi. Alikuwa mlezi, rafiki na mtu aliyenihamasisha sana katika maisha.

Kifo kinaleta huzuni lakini kinaleta tumaini. Naamini bibi yangu atakwenda mbinguni, kwa sababu naamini alitubu dhambi zake akisaidiwa na wachungaji. Wachungaji hao walimtembelea kila siku, nyumbani au hospitalini, akiwa kitandani kwake akiugua. Bibi yangu alitimiza wajibu wake. Alizaliwa, aliishi, na alikufa katika toba.

Siku nitakapokufa ningependa kuzikwa jirani na alipozikwa bibi yangu, ili Yesu atakaporudi tufufuke pamoja.”
― Enock Maregesi

“-En primer lugar, ¿cómo fue que las drogas entraron en nuestro barrio? Estamos hablando de una industria de muchos miles de millones de dólares, nena. Traen esa mierda en avión a nuestras comunidades, pero no conozco a nadie que tenga un jet privado, ¿y tú?
-No.
-Allí está. Las drogas vienen de algún lado, y están destrozando nuestra comunidad- dice papá -. Hay gente como Brenda, que piensa que la necesita para sobrevivir, y luego hay otros como Khalil, que piensan que deben venderla para sobrevivir. Las Brendas no pueden conseguir trabajo a menos que no estén enganchadas, y no pueden pagar una rehabilitación a menos que tengan trabajo. Cuando arrestan a los Khalils por vender drogas, o se pasan la mayor parte de sus vidas en la cárcel, que es otra industria de miles de millones de dólares, o les cuesta muchísimo esfuerzo conseguir trabajo de verdad, y lo más probable es que comiencen a vender drogas otra vez. Ése es el odio que nos dan, nena, un sistema diseñado en contra de nosotros. Eso quiere decir Thug Life.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017.”
― Steven Magee

“The only unchanged by psyheeL :-

It rains it dries the world rotate
They come and they go it's a common fate
Human love is a colored silk , it must fade
And even it's darkest of shade
Misery and joy it's a constant change but
Between sorrows and jollity something unchanged
Nature, my love ; It remains the same.

                                ”
― PSYHEEL

“You bear a significant importance to humanity. You exist to complete the mold. Each step you take, great or little is important to your self-growth and success. Don't be hard on yourself when things don't go right or when the journey seems tough. You have not just one extra year but an entire lifetime to keep trying until you get it right. Please be good to yourself by keeping hope alive always. It's not about the new year. It's about you!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“Resistance is NOT futile.”
― Jay Inslee

“We use the metaphor of waves that rise and fall in societies, perhaps forgetting that the actual waves of the ocean are purely opportunistic, small irregularities in water that, snagging a fortunate gust, rise and break like monsters, for no greater cause than their own accidental invention.”
― Adam Gopnik

“... taking some precautions may attract unwanted attention and scrutiny, even if the precautions otherwise succeed in protecting your information. For example, if detected by a border agent, the fact that you wiped your hard drive may prompt the agent to ask why you did so. Even traveling without devices or data that most travelers typically have could attract suspicion and questions.”
― Sophia Cope, Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data on Your Devices and in the Cloud

“In the past, security guides often suggested that it was necessary to overwrite multiple times (or “passes”). This may be true to some extent for flash media, as described below, but is apparently no longer true for traditional magnetic hard drives. See National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Special Publication 800-88, Revision 1. “Guidelines for Media Sanitization” (Dec. 2014) (“For storage devices containing magnetic media, a single overwrite pass with a [fixed] pattern such as binary zeroes typically hinders recovery of data even if state of the art laboratory techniques are applied to attempt to retrieve the data.”)”
― Sophia Cope, Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data on Your Devices and in the Cloud

“If you need to clear the air with these gentlemen, better remove yourself from the car!”
Julia’s boyfriend, or whatever he was, didn’t seem like much. I had fought more fearsome men in my life. When I heard him mentioning my mother, whom he had started bespattering in something resembling the English language, calling her “a Norwegian whore”, I opened the door and headbutted him without the slightest hesitation. I yelled at the top of my lungs too, so that bitch, Julia, could hear me loud and clear:

“I’m an Irish man, you fucking asshole, I’m from Belfast, we would stick some Semtex up your ass"

(Doina Rusti - Logodnica/The The Fiancée, Polirom, 2017)”
― Doina Rusti, Logodnica

“Flatliners the movie from 2017 has a deeper meaning, can you find it?”
― Deyth Banger, Bridge Of Writing

“There is a tragic irony in all this: populists in power often end up committing the very sins of which they had been accusing “the elites” when the populists had been in opposition: excluding citizens and usurping the state. What the establishment supposedly has always done, populists will also end up doing. Only with what they think is a clear moral justification and, perhaps, even a clean conscience. Hence it is a profound illusion to think that populists can improve our democracies. Populists are in the end different elites who try to acquire power with the help of a collective fantasy of political purity.”
― Jan-Werner Müller, The Rise and Rise of Populism?

“Once we had introduced Oliver’s room

and then going to Claire’s room for the first time,

introducing that space— we’ve tried versions

where she just walked out into the space,

sang the first verse of her song.

And then the iris opened, and her room was there,

and then ultimately landed on a version

where we’re in Oliver’s room

and we’re closing down the iris,

and then it almost immediately opens back up,

and now her room is there—

which is kind of a fun magic trick.

Seeing it together for the first time,

I think we were thrilled with what felt possible—

not that we had gotten it right yet on the first preview

but that there was something here in the vocabulary

that was really unique.

If the audience can’t tell how something is happening

or what is happening or exactly how the space works,

I think that’s exciting.

[uplifting music]”
― Taylor Swift, Style - Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music Single