Betawiki Quotes & Sayings

All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books. — Abhijit Naskar

All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us the need and by giving that need as a burden in our intuitive spirit. Only an intuitive burden can constitute our call to pray. — Watchman Nee

My choice is what I choose to be. — Ben Harper

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing. — Diogenes Laertius

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. — Mitch Landrieu

d'Artagnan is right," said Athos; "here are our three leaves of absence which came from Monsieur de Treville, and here are three hundred pistoles which came from I don't know where. So let us go and get killed where we are told to go. Is life worth the trouble of so many questions? — Alexandre Dumas

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own. — Jaclyn Smith

In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault! — Tim LaHaye

Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why. — Ellyn Bache

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future. — Abdoulaye Wade

Prince Andrei listened attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers and the orders he gave them, and to his surprise found that no orders were really given but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of subordinate commanders, was done, if not by his direct command at least in accord with his intentions. Prince Andrei noticed however that though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the commander's will, owing to the tact Bagration showed, his presence was very valuable. Officers — Leo Tolstoy

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator ... — John Geddes