Abdurrahman Quotes

#1. Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

Jane Austen

#2. I do not like violence.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#3. All in all, this is an excellent place to partake of morning tea, but surprisingly few of the inhabitants of Taunton seem to wish to avail themselves of it. At

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#5. I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#6. I don't talk in ifs.

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#7. The further back I look, the further forward I can see.

Winston Churchill

#8. I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.

Valerie Weiss

#9. All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#10. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

Che Guevara

#11. I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#12. I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.

Cate Shortland

#13. If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#14. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

Isaac Newton

#15. Some girls dream of a big walk in closet in their bedroom I'd prefer a walk -in library in mine.

Unknown

#16. I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

S.E. Hinton

#17. I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

Abigail Disney

#18. The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

Tracy Chapman

#19. Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India's largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate.

Gautam Adani

#20. I don't know if I wanted to top myself or if I just wanted someone to hug me.

Nigel Benn

#21. Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam ... second, the culture of Islam.

Abdurrahman Wahid