Perang Diponegoro Quotes & Sayings

Since most houses today have running water, the ease with which most Americans can give water to a guest obscures the point that everyone in the biblical culture understood: "cold water" came only from the town well or cistern because water in jars at home warmed up very quickly in the heat. Giving a cup of cold water meant inconveniencing yourself and walking to the town well carrying a container, perhaps waiting in line to draw the water, lifting the water up out of the ground, and then carrying the water back to the house - all so someone could quench his thirst. The fact that Christ connects giving cold water with rewards to be received in the future is a powerful testimony to the value of even the most seemingly mundane good works in the eyes of God. — John W. Schoenheit

There's more to life than cause and effect. — Amy Zhang

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. — Oscar Wilde

Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect plague is involved. — Helen Fielding

As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal. — Caitlin Moran

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work. — Richard Donner

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious. — Martin Luther

Patch reached for my hand and pushed my dad's ring off the tip of his finger and into my palm, curling my fingers around it. He kissed my knuckles. "I was going to give this back earlier, but it wasn't finished."
I opened my palm and held the ring up. The same heart was engraved on the underside, but now there were two names carved on either side of it: NORA and JEV.
I looked up. "Jev? That's your real name?"
"Nobody's called me that in a long time. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before. — Dennis E. Adonis

I would love for my phone to scream if I am about to miss an important thing in my life and never bother me if I'm doing something very important and the information coming in is less important than what I'm doing. — Sundar Pichai

You have to love yourself, not in an egotistical way, but if you love yourself, everyone else will love you. — Michelle Mone

Not to me," I said.
Kafka wrote his first story in one night. Stendhal wrote The
Charterhouse of Parma in forty-nine days. Melville wrote Moby-
Dick in sixteen months. Flaubert spent five years on Madame
Bovary. Musil worked for eighteen years on The Man Without
Qualities and died before he could finish. Do we care about any
of that now? — Paul Auster

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story. — Don Miguel Ruiz

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. — Steven Wright

We are conscious of the force of man's life, and we call it freedom — Leo Tolstoy