Soesilo Ananta Toer Quotes & Sayings

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word. — Steven Morrissey

Only those who are grounded can truly learn;
one has to walk before one can fly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his 'animal nature' - is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic ... He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man. — Carl Rogers

High school music teachers ... nobody makes a living off it. — David Ogden Stiers

I wished there had been obvious signs of destruction on all of us kids: bruises or burn marks, something that indicated how violent our house was, but words and neglect don't leave visible marks. And that confuses even the person who knows better. (169) — Monica Holloway

Cookery means ... English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. — John Ruskin

Why would you do that?" I asked as he gasped. "Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?" I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit. — Mark Lawrence

Money is God's seed and Christians should learn how to properly sew it. — Sunday Adelaja

It often seems ... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love. — Oscar Arias

You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy. — Frederick Lenz

No matter how we or others may evaluate what we do, ministry that's based on biblical principles will meet human needs and glorify God. — Warren W. Wiersbe

We switch to another language
not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time. — David Levithan