Kenting Beach Quotes & Sayings

[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings
the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [ ... ] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically. — Amitav Ghosh

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective. — Walter Kohn

I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want ... the whole thing can't be trusted, really. — Don McCullin

A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle. — Zig Ziglar

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life. — Gautama Buddha

I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding. — Ayana Mathis

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future. — Rudy Giuliani

We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country ... We are here, and here we are likely to be. To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed, assimilated, but never extinguished. We repeat, therefore, that we are here; and that this is our country; and the question for the philosophers and statesmen of the land ought to be, What principles should dictate the policy of the action toward us? We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations. — Frederick Douglass

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile. — George Foreman