Sia Quotes

1. "There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you."
Author: Adrian Rogers

2. "Sebuah memoir bukan sekadar bercerita tentang episod-episod, watak-watak dan diri pengarang dalamnya, tetapi juga persoalan kepercayaan, nilai-nilai zaman, visi manusia, dan dialektik yang terjadi hasil perbenturan intelektual dalam kalangan masyarakat."
Author: Baharuddin Zainal

3. "Roger that, Lieutenant. We're boots to the ground. You need firepower?"Walker shook his head at the man's enthusiasm. "No firepower necessary. We're using brains today, Cudahy. I know it may be a novel experience for you four, but it's a good time to start."
Author: Christina Skye

4. "I'd been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I'd seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the first time I saw it: self-respect. If you make the mistake of holding the gaze of a street monkey in India, Nepal, or Malaysia, you'll find you're facing a belligerently intelligent creature whose expression says, with a Robert DeNiro–like scowl, "What the hell are you looking at? You wanna piece of me?" Forget about putting one of these guys in a little red vest."
Author: Christopher Ryan

5. "Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies, had been honored by an invitation from Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the annual maneuvers of the Imperial German Army, held at Breslau. The Kaiser was 'resplendent in the uniform of the White Silesian Cuirassiers' and his massed and regimented infantry...reminded one more of great Atlantic rollers than human formations. Clouds of cavalry, avalanches of field-guns and—at that time a novelty—squadrons of motor-cars (private and military) completed the array. For five hours the immense defilade continued. Yet this was only a twentieth of the armed strength of the regular German Army before mobilization.Strange to find Winston Churchill and Sylvia Plath both choosing the word 'roller,' in both its juggernaut and wavelike declensions, for that scene."
Author: Christopher Hitchens

6. "Bertambahnya usia bukan berarti kita paham segalanya."
Author: Dee

7. "I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world."
Author: Dennis C. Blair

8. "My government is in no sense anti-Russian."
Author: Donald Tusk

9. "Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse."
Author: Dylan Walsh

10. "His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish."
Author: Elisabeth Elliot

11. "La vida es demasiado breve como para vivir el número suficiente de experiencas, es necesario robarlas."
Author: Enrique Vila Matas

12. "My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic."
Author: Eric Stonestreet

13. "Accadeche le affinità d'anima non giunganoai gesti e alle parole ma rimanganoeffuse come un magnetismo. ? raroma accade.Può darsiche sia vera soltanto la lontananza,vero l'oblio, vera la foglia seccapiù del fresco germoglio. Tanto e altropuò darsi o dirsi.Comprendola tua caparbia volontà di essere sempre assenteperché solo così si manifestala tua magia. Innumeri le astuzieche intendo.Insistonel ricercarti nel fuscello e mainell'albero spiegato, mai nel pieno, semprenel vuoto: in quello che anche al trapanoresiste.Era o non erala volontà dei numi che presidianoil tuo lontano focolare, stranimultiformi multanimi animali domestici;fors'era così come mi parevao non era.Ignorose la mia inesistenza appaga il tuo destino,se la tua colma il mio che ne trabocca,se l'innocenza è una colpa oppuresi coglie sulla soglia dei tuoi lari. Di me,di te tutto conosco, tuttoignoro."
Author: Eugenio Montale

14. "Coloro com azul da Frússia o multiverso."
Author: Filipe Russo

15. "Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to."
Author: Frank Abagnale

16. "¿Limpiar la pizarra? Siento como si mi pizarra está demasiado limpia, perpetuamente vacía. Lo que quiero es lo opuesto: un garabato desordenado, constelaciones de cosas indelebles que no puedan ser lavadas jamás"
Author: Gayle Forman

17. "...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and Aksionov, the sufferer in "God Sees the Truth But Waits." A country where the characters in books were allowed to ask one another the questions: How must I live to be happy? What is goodness? Why does man suffer? What is to be done?"
Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe

18. "I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?"
Author: Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani

19. "The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
Author: Henry A. Wallace

20. "Nuorten velvollisuus on erehtyä! Millaisia nuoria ne muuten olisivat?"
Author: Hugo Pratt

21. "I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, "No, it's just an ironic pregnancy."
Author: James Lileks

22. "My love is like one of those wooden Russian nesting dolls (matryoshka doll). I know, because your heart fits perfectly inside mine."
Author: Jarod Kintz

23. "Madeline began hearing people saying "Derrida". She heard them saying "Lyotard" and "Foucault" and "Deleuze" and "Baudrillard". That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middle-class kids who wore Doc Martens and anarchist symbols- made Madeline dubious about the value of their enthusiasm."
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

24. "I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series."
Author: Jim Evans

25. "De alguna manera -había argumentado Garp- la vida es demasiado. La vida es un folletín melodramático no apto para menores, John"
Author: John Irving

26. "In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties."
Author: Jose Maria Aznar

27. "I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."
Author: Juan Cole

28. "Only a bitch of color comes to Harvard to get pregnant. White women don't do that. Asian women don't do that. Only fucking black and Latina women. Why go to all the trouble to get into Harvard just to get knocked up? You could have stayed on the block and done that shit."
Author: Junot Díaz

29. "Let him be, Beth. Sometimes you can't help who you fall for." - Isiah"
Author: Katie McGarry

30. "Me vas a dejar al segundo en que se ponga demasiado empinado, y me dejaras sin nada—cuando te quiero como nunca he querido nada en mi vida. Tú eres todo lo que pienso, con lo que sueño. Lo consigo alto y bajo y es todo acerca de ti ahora, ni siquiera es acerca de mí. ¡No puedo dormir, no puedo pensar, no puedo concentrarme una mierda ya y todo es porque quiero ser el puto "Real" para ti y tan pronto como te des cuenta de lo que soy, todo lo que seré es un maldito error!"
Author: Katy Evans

31. "Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent."
Author: Kevin Smith

32. "Nunca he necesitado demasiado para ser feliz."
Author: Kiera Cass

33. "There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with."
Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

34. "This is Louisiana, we don't have basements because of the water level."
Author: Leah Rae Miller

35. "Even Pushkin, who could understand everything, did not grasp the real significance of Dead Souls. He thought that the author was grieving for Russia, ignorant, savage, and outdistanced by the other nations. But it is not only in Russia that Gogol discovers "dead souls." All men, great and small, seem to him lunatics, lifeless, automata which obediently and mechanically carry out commandments imposed on them from without. They eat, they drink, they sin, they multiply; with stammering tongue they pronounce meaningless words. No trace of free will, no sparkle of understanding, not the slightest wish to awake from their thousand-year sleep."
Author: Lev Shestov

36. "Miracle means; when a South Asian Woman does not turn into an elephant after marriage."
Author: M.F. Moonzajer

37. "A menudo pensamos que somos demasiado complicados, en parte es cierto, porque nos complicamos la existencia"."
Author: Magali Pool

38. "Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke."
Author: Mstislav Rostropovich

39. "Barangsiapa muncul di atas masyarakatnya, dia akan selalu menerima tuntutan dari masyarakatnya-masyarakat yang menaikkannya, atau yang membiarkannya naik.... Pohon tinggi dapat banyak angin? Kalau Tuan segan menerima banyak angin, jangan jadi pohon tinggi"
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

40. "...Grimacing, I plunged a hand into the fouled water to clear the clog, morbid curiosity drawing my youthful eyes to the gray globs of gore floating upon the surface. It was not horror that seized my imagination so much as wonder: sixty years of dreams and desires, hunger and hope, love and longing, blasted away in a single explosive instant, mind and brain. The mind of Erasmus Gray was gone; the remnants of its vessel floated, as light and insubstantial as popcorn, in the water. Which fluffy bit held your ambition, Erasmus Gray? Which speck your pride? Ah, how absurd the primping and preening of our race! Is it not the ultimate arrogance to believe we are more than is contained in our biology? What counterarguments may be put forth, what valid objections raised, to the claim of Ecclesiastes, "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity"?"
Author: Rick Yancey

41. "I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm."
Author: Robert Farrar Capon

42. "Makhluk bernama andjing diburu untuk menjambung hidup penjual maupun pembelinja yang tak tahu lagi apa yang masih bisa dimakan; Makhluk bernama manusia diburu sesama manusia untuk diakhiri hidupnja, entah demi apa. Tuhan, selamatkanlah bangsa kami!"
Author: Seno Gumira Ajidarma

43. "Los medios de comunicación de masas que no proponen otro horizonte para nuestra juventud que el del consumo de masas, el desprecio hacia los más débiles y hacia la cultura, la amnesia generalizada y la competición a ultranza de todos contra todos."
Author: Stéphane Hessel

44. "There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them."
Author: Stephen Cohen

45. "Pernyataan bahwa sekularisasi mempunyai akarnya di dalam kepercayaan Injil dan merupakan natijah dari ajaran Injil, tidak didukung oleh fakta sejarah. Akar sekularisasi bukan adlam kepercayaan kitab Injil, melainkan di dalam tafsiran manusia Barat terhadap kepercayaan kitab tersebut; ini bukanlah buah dari ajaran Injil, tetapi natijah dari sejarah panjang perseteruan dalam filsafat dan metafisika antara pandangan alam (worldview) manusia Barat yang bersandarkan agama dengan yang rasionalis murni."
Author: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al Attas

46. "Custine described them as ‘automata inconvenienced with a soul': a description true, perhaps, of all bureaucrats fearful for their jobs but truest of all where power is both arbitrary and completely centralised, as it was in Russia."
Author: Theodore Dalrymple

47. "The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia."
Author: Tom Turner

48. "If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three."
Author: Townsend Harris

49. "Ce era asta? Ce însemna asta? Oare lucrurile puteau sa-?i întinda mâna, a?a, ?i sa te zgâl?âie; lama de cu?it putea sa taie? pumnul sa in?face? Nu exista o siguran?a? Nicio posibilitate sa înve?i pe de rost caile vie?ii? Nicio îndrumare, niciun adapost, totul era miracol, saltul din vârful unui pisc în spa?iu? E posibil ca asta sa fie via?a, chiar pentru oamenii mai în vârsta? Surprinzatoare, nea?teptata, necunoscuta?" O clipa avu impresia ca daca s-ar ridica amândoi, aici, acum, pe paji?te, ?i ar cere o explica?ie, de ce e via?a atât de scurta, de ce e atât de inexplicabila, daca ?i-ar formula întrebarile vehement, a?a cum ar fi îndrepta?ite sa o faca doua fiin?e umane bine o?elite, fa?a de care nimic nu trebuie ascuns, atunci frumuse?ea s-ar desfa?ura; vidul s-ar umple; arabescurile acelea de?arte s-ar împreuna într-o forma; daca ei doi ar striga destul de tare, doamna Ramsay s-ar întoarce. "Doamna Ramsay! striga cu glas tare. Doamna Ramsay!" Lacrimile i se rostogoleau pe obraji."
Author: Virginia Woolf

50. "Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland."
Author: W. Averell Harriman

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