Chok Quotes

#1. Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition

William Shakespeare

#2. I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: "You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us."

Vivian Balakrishnan

#3. Watching Dawson's creek 'til I fall asleep. It's harder than it seems.

Mac Miller

#4. My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#5. One cricket said to another -
come, let us be ridiculous, and say love!
love love love love love
let us be absurd, woman, and say hate!
hate hate hate hate hate
and then let us be angelic
and say nothing.

Conrad Aiken

#6. Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments, then I worry.

Goh Chok Tong

#7. We all have a hole in our hearts. We can try to fill it with a lot of things ... but in the end only Jesus fits.

Karen Kingsbury

#8. Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Ellen Glasgow

#9. The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.

Fritz Sauckel

#10. And also
to add to my problems
my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.

Victor Villasenor

#11. He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.

E. M. Forster

#12. People from the past belong to the past not to the place which you're heading

Michelle S.

#13. Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#14. In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

Goh Chok Tong

#15. I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Goh Chok Tong

#16. Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

Warren Buffett

#17. Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

Goh Chok Tong

#18. My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

Goh Chok Tong

#19. I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

A. N. Wilson

#20. The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

Anuj

#21. As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Goh Chok Tong

#22. Those who look for a reason to fear will find one, and those without reason will follow.

C.M. McCoy