Timorese Quotes & Sayings

When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status. — Steve Irwin

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner ... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach ... It is a sort of benediction on the house. — Pablo Casals

Be yourself and enjoy yourself. Show me a smile and I'll show you one back. Karma: Believe in it. It's real. It comes back to you. — Vanilla Ice

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid? — Alex London

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! (Rhett Butler) — Margaret Mitchell

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian. — Jessica Mauboy

Now we are creatures of the darkness
Blessed with eternal love to last!
The knowing dawned on me with sharpness
Enhanced by glimpses of the past. — Tatyana K. Varenko

For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle. — Kevin McCarthy

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not. — Jose Ramos-Horta

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia

Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged. — Thomas Hobbes

I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling. — Thomas S. Buechner

The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly. — Caroline Myss

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. — Leon Kass

The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. — Jose Ramos-Horta

The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation, ... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work. — Noam Chomsky

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true. — Albert Einstein

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty. — Naomi Klein

You cannot con an honest man. — Ally Carter

The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves. — Deepak Chopra