Akhmad Kholil Quotes & Sayings

Physically he was tired and his body relaxed throughout its entire length; his mind was in much the same state, floating free, detached, as though he had taken his old favourite, the tincture of laudanum. He felt no particular anxiety. The attempt must either succeed or fail: he hoped with all his heart for success, but 'all his heart' did not amount to a great deal now that some essential part of its core seemed to have died. Yet on the other hand he felt more able to command success in that it meant no less to him - to command it with a strength that arose not from a fundamental indifference to his own fate but from something resembling it that he could not define; it had a resemblance to despair, but a despair long past, with the horror taken out of it. — Patrick O'Brian

Happiness is the change that comes over me
when I describe the world
It comes over the world
Happiness is the change that comes over me
when I'm afraid
It comes over the world
For instance I can be afraid of and for the world
afraid because the world consists among other things
of me so swiftly dying — Inger Christensen

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me. — Alexi Giannoulias

Those who don't move don't notice their chains. — Rosa Luxemburg

This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair. — Christina Baker Kline

My mother used to say the more lost you are, the later it got, the more you had invested in not being lost. That's why people who are lost so often keep heading in the same direction. — Ann Patchett

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic. — Jamie Lee Curtis

To trace the history of a river ... is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. — Gretel Ehrlich

It's no use trying to be different than you are. — Chogyam Trungpa

Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t — Erykah Badu

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us. — Paul David Washer

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks

The lower you fall the higher you can rise. — Matshona Dhliwayo

People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn't know were there, even the ones they wouldn't have thought to call beautiful themselves. — Hilary T. Smith

No one had ever told her about the ingredients of life, only of biscuits. — Jonathan Odell