Semenanjung Quotes & Sayings

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism. — Henry David Thoreau

'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do. — Jennifer Haigh

I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them. — Jessica Khoury

He does not see that all things slowly weaken and fall to ruin,2 worn out by ages past. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Life is about losing everything, gracefully. — Mia Farrow

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. — Jean Anouilh

But as men grow more industrialised and regimented, the kind of delight that is common in children becomes impossible to adults because they are always thinking of the next thing and cannot let themselves be absorbed in the moment. This habit of thinking of the 'next thing' is more fatal to any kind of aesthetic excellence than any other habit of mind that can be imagined, and if art, in any important sense, is to survive it will not be by the foundation of solemn academies, but by recapturing the capacity for wholehearted joys and sorrows which prudence and foresight have all but destroyed. — Bertrand Russell

Rather we say that in the cross, God had in view the actual, effective redemption of his children from all that would destroy them, including their own unbelief. And we affirm that when Christ died particularly for his bride, he did not simply create a possibility or an opportunity for salvation, but really purchased and infallibly secured for them all that is necessary to get them saved, including the grace of regeneration and the gift of faith. — John Piper

One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch. — Marisa Miller

I've always been motivated to be a champion since the age of 13 and I love being a winner. — Joe Calzaghe

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance. — Ryan Lochte

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. — Douglas Wilson

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches. — Chris Gardner

You won't do anyone any good if you drop dead of exhaustion," she said to Harper once. I won't do anyone any good if I don't, Harper imagined saying back. I'm not doing anyone any good, one way or another. But she didn't say it. It would've been grief talking, and it was unfair to unload her sadness — Joe Hill