Risnawati Utami Quotes & Sayings

One of the strongest things I have had to wrestle with in my life is the significance of the longing for perfection in oneself and in the people bound to the self by friendship or parenthood or childhood. — Fred Rogers

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry. — Albert Einstein

Dare to succeed! And fail boldly. — Jill Shultz

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You see," I proceeded, "by the time he was eleven or twelve, this was all too late. The no-gun rules, the computer codes ... Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive, it's a vanity. We want to be able to tell ourselves what good parents we are, that we're doing our best. If I had it all to do over again, I'd have let Kevin play with whatever he wanted; he liked little enough. And I'd have ditched the TV rules, the G-rated videos. They only made us look foolish. They underscored our powerlessness, and they provoked his contempt. — Lionel Shriver

Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up. — Tim Kimmel

Sometimes tragic and awful can be funny, too. Sometimes it has to be. — Mia Sheridan

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army. — Ted Cruz

ACT13.38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: — Anonymous

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on! — Peter Falk

Since it is always possible that your dream can come true, you must be very careful in choosing your dream, because the world is full with the unhappy people whose dreams are realized! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us. — Peter Matthiessen

I guess she felt as I: that the weakness was not Government but Man, one at a time, that men were never as strong as their ideas and that ideas were governments turned into men;
and so it began on a couch with a spilled martini
and it ended in the bedroom: desire, revolution,
nonsense ended, and the shades rattled in the wind,
rattled like sabres, cracked like cannon,
and 30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses chased one fox
across the fields under the sun — Charles Bukowski

I hope you won't completely forget me. — Kate Chopin

He knew the quiet that arrived, the blinding force of panic, and he knew too that each loss brought with it some odd, barely acknowledged sense of relief. — Elizabeth Strout