Malaysia's Quotes

#1. Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

Najib Razak

#2. I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.

Barack Obama

#3. Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

Sukarno

#4. Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

Sukarno

#5. Very often we talk about India and China, but not really Malaysia and Indonesia. The potential in the shift to the East is going to be great and very important for this country.

Tariq Ramadan

#6. As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.

Najib Razak

#7. The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue.

Zen Cho

#8. Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

Thomas Friedman

#9. Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.

Zen Cho

#11. There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

Najib Razak

#12. I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#13. As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Umberto Eco

#14. It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.

Najib Razak

#15. In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

Najib Razak

#16. Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

Najib Razak

#17. I brought seaweed snacks from home,' chimed in another kid. "Seaweed got iron, right?"
'I don't think the teachers meant that kind of iron,' said Hui Ann.

Zen Cho

#18. Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the side. She sold these from a stall in Kota Bharu. Her main wares were various types of fruit fried in batter, but if you bought five pisang or cempedak goreng, she threw in a jampi for free.

Zen Cho

#19. The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

Cael Sanderson

#20. The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

Utkarsh Ambudkar

#21. Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

Romesh Gunesekera

#22. If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.

Najib Razak

#23. When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

Henry Rollins

#24. You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

Mario Andretti

#25. We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

Najib Razak

#26. I'm going to Malaysia to try and win a million dollars ... how exciting is that?

Colleen Haskell

#27. I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

Thuy Trang

#28. There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Julie Bishop

#29. Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.

Zen Cho

#30. I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.

Zen Cho

#31. My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

Najib Razak

#32. China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.

Gary Cohn

#33. During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.

Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

#34. Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.

Arvind Ethan David

#35. We can work together to produce better footballers for both FK Sarajevo and maybe Cardiff City and maybe even to play for other clubs. We hope this will be well received by everybody and enhance good relations between Malaysia and Bosnia.

Vincent Tan

#36. He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

Zen Cho

#37. Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.

Najib Razak

#38. I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

Vincent Tan

#39. The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia,
Number Two in England,
And Number Three in Kenya.
I am Number Four.
I am next ...
- I AM NUMBER FOUR

Pittacus Lore

#40. Truth will always come to light ...
Words; dedicated to the families of the victims- Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
Day in and day out with the light of the sun -
Night after night with the light of the moon;
Piece by piece, we will come closer to the truth.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#41. How do you know there's not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?

Sarah Palin

#42. I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia ... The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

Barack Obama

#43. Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

Mahathir Mohamad

#44. Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.

Zen Cho

#45. There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

George Meyer

#46. Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out.
Granted, I had tried to steal her Tiara of Clairvoyance.

Zen Cho

#47. In Malaysia where the front end pushes so much, extra engine braking is really going to help you.

Sete Gibernau

#48. I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

Parminder Nagra

#49. We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#50. All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

Hakeem Olajuwon

#51. [On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

Isabella Bird

#52. I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom.

Ren Ng

#53. In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

Paul Theroux

#54. I grew up in Malaysia, and Bollywood is really big there. As a result, I've grown up watching a lot of Hindi movies.

Michelle Yeoh

#55. I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes.

Craig Fairbrass

#56. When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

Rory Stewart

#57. All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#58. Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Alexander Cockburn

#59. But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.

Zen Cho

#60. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Paulette Jiles

#61. The sun was beginning to set and the water was sparkling in the low light as the onshore breeze that had built up through the heat of the day rippled across the reflective surface, breaking it into a million diamonds of yellow-white light.

Emma Bamford

#62. Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world.

Martin Jacques

#63. I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.

Ian Rush

#64. Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.

Julie Bishop

#65. We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand.

Marty Natalegawa

#66. We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice ... Kazakhstan ... into the jungles of Malaysia.

John Fusco

#67. Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

Najib Razak

#68. Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.

Conrad Black

#69. There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

Tariq Ramadan

#70. If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.

Sukarno