Dewi Sartika Quotes & Sayings

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible — Nicholas Sparks

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable ... There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist. — E. Haldeman-Julius

Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import regulations, border control, visa politics ... etc.) are still made in an unjust, unreasonable way. — Sasa Stanisic

Over the course of the last decade, I have become vividly aware of a literally lethal challenge from the sort of people who deal in absolute certainty and believe themselves to be actuated and justified by a supreme authority. To have spent so long learning so relatively little, and then to be menaced in every aspect of my life by people who already know everything, and who have all the information they need ... More depressing still, to see that in the face of this vicious assault so many of the best lack all conviction, hesitating to defend the society that makes their existence possible, while the worst are full to the brim and boiling over with murderous exaltation. — Christopher Hitchens

RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad dreams because you're worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you're getting old.
HARRY: Getting old? Thanks, mate. — J.K. Rowling

Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though."
Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer."
"There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted. — Rachel Vincent

I tried to walk with my head high. It was really hard. — Ian Baker-Finch

She tugged the sleeves down over her hands, stretching the fabric until the seams reached her fingernails. Then she locked her fingers around them to ensure they stayed down.
Veda fought the urge to rip those sleeves from Coco's grip and force her to wear them appropriately, or at the very least roll them up so she wouldn't be tempted to yank at them. She could remember a time when she'd had the same habit, back in middle school. As if hiding her hands behind a thin piece of fabric would protect her from the world. — Trevion Burns

Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence. — Maile Meloy

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. — Tracey Ullman

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true — Patrick Ness

The light of the sun is the manifestation of the clarity of the sky; and the sky is the basic condition necessary for the manifestation of the sun's light. So, too, in the sky two, three, four, or any number of suns could arise; but the sky always remains indivisibly one sky. Similarly, every individual's state of presence is unique and distinct, but the void nature of the individual is universal, and common to all beings. — Namkhai Norbu

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago — Terry Wogan