Suryadi Sasmita Quotes & Sayings

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is. — Andy Warhol

George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. — Marilyn Wilson

To restore you and myself, I return to my state of garden and shade, cool reality, I hardly exist and if I do exist it's with delicate care. Surrounding the shade is a teeming, sweaty heat. I'm alive. But I feel I've not yet reached my limits, bordering on what? Without limits, the adventure of a dangerous freedom. But I take the risk, I live taking it. I'm full of acacias swaying yellow, and I, who have barely begun my journey, begin it with a sense of tragedy, guessed what lost ocean my life steps will take me to. And crazily I latch onto the corners of myself, my hallucinations suffocate me with their beauty. I am before, I am almost, I am never. And all this I gained when I stopped loving you. — Clarice Lispector

We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop. — Seth Shostak

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't. — Isabella Rossellini

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security. — Rob Simmons

In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending. — John T. Flynn

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it. — Mahatma Gandhi

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination. — Richard M. Nixon