Fira Basuki Quotes & Sayings

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch. — Blaise Pascal

We now know, as a few knew then, that the depression was not produced by a failure of private enterprise, but rather by a failure of government in an area in which the government had from the first been assigned responsibility - -"To coin money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin," in the words of Section 8, Article 1, of the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, as we shall see in Chapter 9, government failure in managing money is not merely a historical curiosity but continues to be a present-day reality. — Milton Friedman

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen. — Brigitte Bardot

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner

This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another. — Suzanne Collins

The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. — Jo Brand

While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past. — Warren Buffett

Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and
thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty. — Ray Bradbury

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. — William Haley

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. — Walter Annenberg

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston. — Charlie Puth

I kind of love my work. I really love the pieces I do. — Peter Max

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones. — Henry David Thoreau

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. — Natalie Cole