Alfian Quotes

#1. I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.

Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

#2. Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.

Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

#3. It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms

James Weldon Johnson

#5. A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

Terry Pratchett

#6. For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

Isa Kamari

#7. Memory entering the head like a knife.
A girl's hands slicing the heart in two.

Alfian Sa'at

#8. There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

Kathryn Hahn

#9. I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

Antonia Fraser

#10. I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.

Brendan Daly

#11. I was so anxious about what kind of kiss it would be-because my friends back home described so many types-and it turned out to be the beautiful kind. You didn't shove your tongue down my throat. You didn't grab my butt. We just held our lips together ... and kissed.

Jay Asher

#12. Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Dennis Lehane

#13. Everything has been planned. The ascent will be completed in two days' time. He will climb another one hundred floors today. Another hundred the next day. He does not want to take the lift. The rush of life causes people to drown in the temporary. He wishes to dip into eternity before he leaves.

Isa Kamari

#14. Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Aristotle.

#15. I'm not a saviour," he said.
She, of all people knew no one was and that she didn't deserve one.
"I'm not asking you to be.

Nicole Locke

#16. If you care too much about Singapore, first it'll break your spirit, and finally it will break your heart.

Alfian Sa'at