Sastera Hikayat Quotes & Sayings

GRASS, LIKE NEARLY EVERYTHING else in China, is subject to political interpretation. Historically, the Chinese have taken a dim view of grass. In Peking's parks, the dirt is swept daily, since cleanliness is prized, but gardeners relentlessly uproot any tuft of grass. Grass breeds disease, generations of Chinese have been taught. Additionally, Communist doctrine teaches that grass is decadent, since it is usually associated with leisured classes and generates exploitation - one man hiring another to cut it. — Carl Hiaasen

I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away! — Bindi Irwin

Tune, tune," said Porch briskly. He turned to Orson. "And is there a word for today?" Orson was the word person, spilling words out as if they were notes on a staff. "Rebarbative," said Orson promptly. "Causing annoyance or irritation. Mozart's rebarbative music causes me to want to throw up." Porch sighed. Orson preferred Schubert. — Patricia MacLachlan

The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax. — Richard Rogers

Because he also is flesh.' In which language God complains, that the order appointed by him has been so greatly disturbed, that his own image has been transformed into flesh. — John Calvin

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..? — David Moody

You can't change the cards you are dealt unless you stack the deck. — Terry Blakeman

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway — Paloma Faith

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. — James Buchan

Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order. — Paul David Tripp

Art attests to what is inhuman in man. — Alain Badiou

The target of Melanie Thernstrom's The Dead Girl is, I think, an interesting one: — David Shields

As you spend time with the King of kings and the Lord of lords, His attitude becomes your attitude. — Andrew Wommack

Souls and bodies should go on together. — Louisa May Alcott