Snouck Quotes & Sayings

Snouck could speak of the region of Aceh, on the nnorthern tip of Sumatra, as 'that country ... that old pirate-state', and the American traveller Eliza Scidmore of ' the brave, liberty-loving Achinese'. Within a decade Aceh, however unwillyngly, was finally subjugated, its focus recalibrated from the Malay world and the Indian Ocean to Java, and its future rendered unmistakably as part of the Netherlands Indies — R.E. Elson

Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter. — Georgette Mosbacher

Watching the ball is always a good starting point. — Andrew Strauss

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Balance - the essence of living a life of beauty. — Nikki Rowe

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not. — Oscar Wilde

When life feels heavy, these two remedies relieve life's complexities: simplicity and purity. Simplicity seeks God. Purity enjoys him. — Thomas A Kempis

Everyone's got to have a dream ... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them. — Cher

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success. — Cassandra Clare

And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives. — Stephen Chbosky