Arus Balik Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes & Sayings

He thinks for a long time, about injustice, cruelty and the almighty dollar. About hypocrisy and power ballads. About ego, ambition and politics. The usual reasons stuff got done down here. Jesus looks at the glass, at the hateful, grieving faces, and speaks softly towards the microphone. 'When the truth of all this comes out none of you should be too hard on yourselves. You ... I mean, the Bible's mostly a crock, but there's no other way to say this, folks ... you know not what you did. Just try and remember,' he smiles, 'be nice. — John Niven

In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us. — Martin Luther

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. — Jeff Bridges

The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup. — Helena Rutherfurd Ely

The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result. — Robert Jordan

I turn onto North Market Street to pass Thomas Wolfe's house. I'd planned to do my dissertation on Wolfe. My advisor argued against it. Wolfe is all but forgotten now, she said, which seemed all the more reason to do it, so he would not be forgotten, or only, as Wolfe himself wrote, by the wind grieved. The — Ron Rash

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it. — Rihanna

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world. — Mike Jackson

He did not think of the ten years: What remained of them tonight was only a feeling which he could not name, except that it was quiet and solemn. The feeling was a sum, and he did not have to count again the parts that had gone to make it. — Ayn Rand