Mudah Quotes & Sayings

We have made enquiries about the rules of the inhabitants of the Roman empire and the Indian states. . . . We have never rejected anybody because of their different religion or origin. We have not jealously kept away from them what we affirm. And at the same time we have not disdained to learn what they stand for. For it is a fact that to have knowledge of the truth and of sciences and to study them is the highest thing with which a king can adorn himself. And the most disgraceful thing for kings is to disdain learning and be ashamed of exploring the sciences. He who does not learn is not wise. - Khosraw I Anushirvan (according to the Byzantine historian Agathias) — Michael Axworthy

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it. — Josh McDowell

If a model is going to make some shoes, she's going to make them comfortable. — Karen Elson

My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche. — Steve Aoki

...but at night when he turns the awkward [telescope] skyward, he catches his breath at the clarity of the image and the vast populations of stars unknown to him until then, the riotous glittering in the dark crevices between constellations, a convocation of bright spirits waiting to be found. — John Pipkin

Things always happen for a reason, that's what everybody says."
"But often, not for the reasons we wanted."
"Yeah, it's like a rule of life, or something." Dia menghela napas. "But I think believing that things happen for a reason makes it easier for us to keep going. Dengan menerima kenyataan, kita akan lebih mudah bergerak maju, mengecilkan ruang untuk rasa sesal. — Winna Efendi

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live. — Baden Powell De Aquino

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy. — Sherman Alexie

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine.
If breath of sun does belch its heat,
we boil coffee and prepare to eat. — Roman Payne

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. — Susan Sontag

Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel. — Karin Slaughter

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be. — Alice Steinbach

If we were to understand how dear we are to God, our relation to Him, our value in His eyes, and how He protects us by His faithful promises and gracious presence, we would not tremble at every appearance of danger. — John Flavel

Human nature is so important than your life — Azhar Sabri

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures
that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Violence is the only way to achieve freedom, it seems. I wouldn't have thought so before all of this. My escape plan was a more peaceful one, but I know now that it wouldn't have been successful. — Lauren DeStefano