Hatta's Quotes

#1. I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Helen Keller

#2. Dreamers are full of inventive minds, willing to find new possibilities and new ways to grow in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#3. I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

Mohammad Hatta

#4. In life, there is nothing to lose, so feel the joy and live it.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Insanity," said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. "That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of sanity. Shouldn't someone who's in sanity be very sane? In means out. Curious."
"And they think we're the mad ones," laughed the smiling Cheshire Cat.

Daniel Coleman

#6. Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

William Damon

#7. What is precious isn't the thing, but the feelings behind it.

Ayuko Hatta

#8. Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.

Sarah Manguso

#10. It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life.

Nash

#11. Hatta always gave the impression of rain. If I was in a real good mood and full of ideas and then happened to encounter Hatta, I felt I was suddenly surprised by a shower of rain and got wet all over the body. My good mood was gone, and also my ideas.

Sukarno

#12. I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.

John Sulston

#13. No one shrieked, 'We want Bung Hatta.' I did not need him. Just as also I did not need Sjahrir, who refused to show himself at the time of the reading of the Proclamation. Indeed, I could do it myself, and indeed, I did it alone.

Sukarno

#14. One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.

Marissa Meyer

#15. You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'
She lifted her chin. 'Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can't seem to tell.'
'They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.

Marissa Meyer

#16. We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.

Chris Brogan

#17. That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know."
"Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind."
"I so wish you hadn't said that.

Rachel Caine

#18. You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

David Bowie

#19. And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

Christopher Gadsden

#20. I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text ... that is the action of a coward!

Sukarno

#21. Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

Dave Attell