
Top 21 Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes
#1. My mom just told me it's impossible to know what's going to happen in life. Except with breakfast, cause she eats the same thing every day.
Bob Saget
#2. I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.
Vanessa Redgrave
#3. My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.
Tony McCoy
#4. 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
#5. You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.
Ram Dass
#6. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#8. All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
Ray Kurzweil
#9. 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
#10. I cannot see anything admirable in stupidity, injustice and sheer incompetence in high places, and there is too much of all three in the present administration.
M.M. Kaye
#13. -I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off.
-You read it?
-No, he said over his shoulder, -but I know the son of a bitch who wrote it.
William Gaddis
#14. I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
Joe Wright
#16. He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious.
Erik Larson
#17. I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.
Kristin Hannah
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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