Quotes About Javanese

#1. New York City vagrant:
"What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?"
Kakuzo Okakura responds:
"We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey?

Okakura Kakuzo

#2. For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

Therese Walsh

#3. It was [the concept of] nationalism that Indonesia was established on. Not the Javanese, not the Sumatran, not the Bornean, Sulawesi, Bali or others, but the Indonesian, that together became the foundation of one nationale staat (nation-state).

Sukarno

#4. The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we'll dig a hole deep enough to deliver her to Satan ourselves.

Frankie Boyle

#6. My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

Jane Levy

#7. Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Samuel Wilson

#8. The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Stephen Covey

#9. I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need to be locked in, I need to remember people's names. I know this sounds really stupid, but I just need to be more present in my life.

Jen Kirkman

#10. What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

Bill Walton

#11. Helping children master their emotions and relationships makes them better learners.

Linda Lantieri

#12. One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#13. My principles in respect of religious interest are two,
one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion.

Lajos Kossuth

#14. Into crates, but threw the bad ones away. 49 That is the

Anonymous

#15. Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

Lou Reed

#16. Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor W. Adorno

#17. My distant past, that is. The last time we were together he said he'd leave me to figure things out in my own time, and a lot of that sort of time has passed.

Kristina Wright

#18. I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

Muhammad Ali

#19. You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

May Sarton