Jakarta Notebook Quotes & Sayings

Not only are the poorest people the most generous but they don't expect anything in return, least of all recognition from others by means of showing off or posting a humble brag like so many from average society do and you can identify these people through the abundance of photos they post, literally with their hands in the air, showing off what they've done for the "less fortunate." I guess they missed the part where God said to be humble and to do good works in private. — Donna Lynn Hope

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. — Vernon Cooper

They were never young and will never be old. They have no beauty, no charm, no style. They don't have to please anybody. They are safe. They — Raymond Chandler

You can believe I took you to be my wife. To honor, respect and protect, for all the days of our life. — Mira Lyn Kelly

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon. — P.G. Wodehouse

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century. — Richard M. Nixon

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998. — Selena Roberts

Belief conducts the symphony of our thoughts.
While moments dance to that symphony.
Want better moments?
Choose to be a better conductor. — Charles F. Glassman

I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well. — Erland Josephson

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff. — Naomi Watts

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them. — Kellan Lutz