Hanafiah Ponggawa Quotes & Sayings

Some days are like that ... and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do. — Lloyd Alexander

The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way. The present world is good, but broken and in any case incomplete; art of all kinds enables us to understand that paradox in its many dimensions. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold-and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed. Perhaps art can show something of that, can glimpse the future possibilities pregnant within the present time. — N. T. Wright

Really, Roen Tan? Do you actually think pizza makes you hear voices? — Wesley Chu

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings. — Alfred Kahn

Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody. — Phyllis Diller

He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time. — Sebastian Faulks

Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you. — Rhonda Byrne

Sometimes, when you stepped in something foul, the only thing to do was stop walking and make the effort to clean it off. — Brandon Sanderson

You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change. — Thomas A. Edison

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. — John Milton