Southeast Asian Quotes

#1. A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

Tariq Ali

#2. Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

Joel Robuchon

#3. Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

Benigno Aquino III

#4. We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#5. We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

Pol Pot

#6. In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.

D.B. Harrop

#7. When I left America I understood the formation of public opinion in Southeast Asia. I had had the best course possible, taught by a famous Asian expert. Two minutes at Chulalongkorn taught me that I might just as profitably have studied the zither.

Carol Hollinger

#8. I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

David Cone

#9. One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.

Carol Berg

#10. Spring bursts today, For love is risen and all earth's at play.

Christina Rossetti

#11. Keep that hate alive in your heart, lad. It'll warm you when nothing else will.

Brian Keene

#12. (T)he political response to terror must always be to increase and to promote freedom. The battle is truly for hearts and minds and should be waged with all the propaganda tools available to a prosperous democracy.

Julian Malins

#13. And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.

Mary Tyler Moore

#14. I already have Tangled Webs and Blood throughout the night out. look out for Night of the Beast all great reads.

Bobby Rodgers

#15. For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

Adolf Hitler

#16. We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning.
-Pg.242-

Cassandra Clare

#17. I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.

Owen Hart

#18. All that you are is because of your choices.

Debasish Mridha

#19. When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

Rony Abovitz

#20. Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

Ted Rall

#22. There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.

Kevin Kwan