Belitung Quotes & Sayings

If you slip, it doesn't mean you're less valuable. It simply means that you have something to learn from slipping. — Wayne Dyer

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. — Harrison Scott Key

People who hate God ... take it out on innocent people. — Pat Robertson

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to. — Andrea Hirata

At first they hadn't been so bad, but little by little ... his daddy thought about drinking a lot more. Sometimes he was angry at Mommy and didn't know why. He went around wiping his lips with his handkerchief and his eyes were far away and cloudy. — Stephen King

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most. — Andrea Hirata

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here. — Andrea Hirata

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence is the seeing of what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There is nothing like being at the game — Candy L. VanDyke

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith. — Madeleine L'Engle