Wiyono Pontjoharyo Quotes & Sayings

You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events. — Amy Chan

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. — Ella Maillart

You are the only one who can create an incredible world around you, or destroy yourself. — Thalia

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. — Robert Herrick

Perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes. — Barack Obama

If you had left to go train an hour ago when you first thought of it, you would be done by now. — Andre Bramble

We are all the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then, whereas at twenty we put on a show of being someone else, of being in the mode of the moment. If there is an intellectual fashion, you become an intellectual; if girls are fluffy and frivolous, you are fluffy and frivolous. As life goes on, however, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself every day. This is sometimes disconcerting for those around you, but a great relief to the person concerned. I — Agatha Christie

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office. — Will Rogers

It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distances, so there was also no closeness. — David Pratt

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real. — James Baldwin

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice. — Rudyard Kipling

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her. — Gary Player

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be. — Eric Davis

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation. — Rajneesh