Rachmawan Budiarto Quotes & Sayings

It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state. — Sayyid Qutb

Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama. — Flannery O'Connor

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window. — Neal Stephenson

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners. — Ellen J. Barrier

I'm Jewish ... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say. — Andy Kindler

I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love. — James Fenimore Cooper

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock. — Jennifer Aniston

We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population. — Winston Peters

I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless. — Emma Donoghue

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man. — Mickey Mantle