Gunung Merapi Quotes & Sayings

It was her clothes that did it...they clashed violently with the buff distemper of the walls. — Norman Collins

To survive in most arenas of power you must first understand that everyone lies, everyone cheats, and no one is your friend. The paradox is that not everyone lies, and not everyone cheats, and some people are your friends. The problem lies in the fact that one smiling face and handshake looks much like another, and when you're surrounded by consummate liars, how to tell the truth from the lie, friend from foe? Better to treat everyone professionally, pleasantly, smile, nod, be friendly, but never be friends. Because there is no way to tell who is on your side, not really. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I'll not be a hypocrite and dispute you over that. It's the custom and culture that up brings us to what's right and what's wrong. It's just easier to follow than to dispute. — Max Connelly

Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn't answered you, He plans in your favor. — Omar Suleiman

It is never a waste of time to be outdoors, and never a waste of time to rest, even for a few hours. — May Sarton

With every choice you risk the life you could have had. With every decision you lose it. — Cassia Leo

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours. — J.K. Rowling

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish. — Jeff Bezos

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do ... and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat? — Stephen King

She breathed deeply of the freedom she found in Mattie's presence. Here she had no choice but to be herself. The carefully erected decoys she was constantly shuffling and changing to fit the situation were of no use here. Etta and Mattie went way back, a singular term that claimed co-knowledge of all the important events in their lives and almost all of the unimportant ones. And by rights of this possession, it tolerated no secrets. — Gloria Naylor

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to. — Jennifer Egan

That's terrifying, said Iko, who had acknowledged the truth of Cinder's race much as she'd acknowledged Thorne's convict status: with loyalty and acceptance, but without changing her opinion that Lunars and convicts remained untrustworthy and unredeemable as a general rule. — Marissa Meyer

If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves. — Curt Gabrielson