Merdeka Day Quotes & Sayings

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. — Craig Venter

The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ. — Steven J. Lawson

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story. — Johnny Kidd

One of us ...
One of them ...
One of us ...
One of them ...
A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track
never ending but going nowhere. — Malorie Blackman

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description. — Nicolle Wallace

In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it. — Warren Buffett

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet. — Benvenuto Cellini

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb. — Thomas Brooks

The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily available memory, range of imagination, and, of course, an intellect trained in analysis and reflection. — Mortimer J. Adler

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ... — William Fawcett

To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap. — David Ferrie

Winter dark, five o'clock in the morning by the little gold carriage clock on the bedroom mantelpiece. The clock, an English one ('Better than a French one', her mother had instructed), had been one of her parents' wedding presents. When the creditors came to call after the society portraitist's death his widow hid the clock beneath her skirts, bemoaning the passing of the crinoline. Lottie appeared to chime on the quarter, disconcerting the creditors. Luckily they were not in the room when she struck the hour. — Kate Atkinson

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished. — Andrew Morton