Yusril Mahendra Quotes & Sayings

Jesus said, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes" (Mark 9:23). — Stormie O'martian

To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player. — Leonard Mlodinow

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have. — Phil Keoghan

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. — Ring Lardner

Flannery O'Connor ... points out that 'a story really isn't good unless it successfully resists paraphrase. ...' ... Paraphrasing can force us into deeper levels of both story and self. O'Connor also says that a good story 'hangs on and expands the mind.' ... Most importantly, as we explore the largeness of stories, their 'macro' possibilities, we are forced further into the largeness of our own lives. The 'hidden' story, made visible, can be that which is most difficult to confront in our experiences and, at the same time, the story that demands to be told. — Karen Salyer McElmurray

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her. — Laini Taylor

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. — Lawrence Hargrave

I am ripe. Ripe enough to hear your Truth. But shout it for one ear remains deaf. — Martin Cosgrove

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like." — David Fincher

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere. — Marcus Aurelius

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style. — Bethany Mota