Papua Quotes

#1. To the north the Indonesian Air Force strafed Australian ships that were attempting to repel refugees from Indonesia and Timor and Papua. In

James Bradley

#2. I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

Rhianna Pratchett

#3. When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

Donald Miller

#4. The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

Bernard Dowiyogo

#5. A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years.

Michael Leunig

#6. Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if you ask me, the sheer quantity of normal in the world today. I think that's the real horror of modern life.

James Greer

#7. Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

Albert Brooks

#8. In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about.

Sam Shepard

#9. There is a world of good you can do without even realizing it, if you decide that today, just today, you're going to be decent to the people you meet.

Jack Tyler

#10. and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being. With

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butler

#12. I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

Dick Cheney

#13. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

#14. When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

Michael Scott

#15. Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

John Barton

#16. Somewhere in the world there must be a cult of divination centered on the interpretation of cranial sutures, but he couldn't recall any from his Cultural Anthro classes. Papua New Guinea maybe. They were big into cranial curation there.

Scott Nicolay

#17. Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

Ciputra

#18. The Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has a beautiful saying: "Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle." What we understand and learn about rising strong is only rumor until we live it and integrate it through some form of creativity so that it becomes part of us.

Brene Brown

#19. Those who serve others will be served.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

Randy Alcorn

#21. Faithfulness is God's standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful - simply faithful.

Linda Dillow