Indian Traveller Quotes & Sayings

Snouck could speak of the region of Aceh, on the nnorthern tip of Sumatra, as 'that country ... that old pirate-state', and the American traveller Eliza Scidmore of ' the brave, liberty-loving Achinese'. Within a decade Aceh, however unwillyngly, was finally subjugated, its focus recalibrated from the Malay world and the Indian Ocean to Java, and its future rendered unmistakably as part of the Netherlands Indies — R.E. Elson

I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an athiest. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If life is too short, isn't that more reason to make the most of what we've got? To live the way we want to? — Ayse Kulin

There seems to be an attitude problem, as if we cannot shake ourselves out of a mindset of limited achievement. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 ... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life? — Anne Lamott

Joel's face swam across my vision and I blinked, goose bumps running up my arms. I shook his memory away, determined to stay focused, although my heart caved at the thought of his last words to us, right here in this very spot: Take care of each other. I'd be damned if I was going to let him down now. — Rachael Wade