Jakarta Banjir Quotes

#1. Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

Ann Patchett

#2. I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

Donald Trump

#3. He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

Walter Kirn

#4. Asami: ...Why'd you chase after me? It's not like you care about me!!

Yoh: Well that's true. But, things would be more complicated if I didn't chase after you.

Kazune Kawahara

#5. If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

Don Baylor

#7. MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. None of us are what we once were.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. Since 2001, I've done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms.

Mike Quigley

#10. We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Edward Abbey

#11. I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. I loved you so much it sometimes burned in my chest.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#13. The Mercy of some of these Men is Cruelty itself," he wrote. "It were better for us and the Indians also, that we had no Liberty.

Jill Lepore

#14. If God himself bows before His own law, what more can be done? There is more in the atonement by way of merit, than there is in all human sin by way of demerit. The

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. What is great in the human is that it is a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in the human is that it is a going-over and a going-under.

Friedrich Nietzsche