Jelaga Hitam Quotes & Sayings

The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour. — Penelope Hobhouse

No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb. — Theodore Adorno

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. — Timothy Noah

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself. — John Carroll Lynch

Perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church. — Saint Augustine

There's isn't any slight of hand in Spirituality, everything you desire is right there for you to see. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do. — Anne Holm

As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. — Spiro T. Agnew

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for. — Cristina Saralegui

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand. — R.S. Thomas

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness. — Michel De Montaigne

To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you're made. — Iris Apfel

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself. — Fernando Pessoa