Quotes About Djakarta

#1. The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#3. I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

Rosanne Cash

#4. He feeds upon her face by day and night,
And she with true kind eyes looks back on him,
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light:
Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.

Christina Rossetti

#5. I believe you would square off at Satan if he came around and inconvenienced you!

Elizabeth Peters

#6. For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

Rick Warren

#8. It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties.

Sukarno