Tangkuban Perahu Quotes

#1. [When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

Bess Truman

#2. I am sometimes in awe of all that I have been exposed to culturally that I never would have discovered if not for the pursuit of sex or sexual gratification. I think of all the movies I watched when I was young simply because I thought I might glimpse a nude body.

Drew Nellins Smith

#3. Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

Adolf Hitler

#4. Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

Oprah Winfrey

#5. If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.

Giles Duley

#6. It is when we are confronted with ... poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.

Kathleen Basford

#7. You cannot hide from your heart, Kate. It always finds you. And, sadly, I cannot hide from mine.

Rysa Walker

#8. There was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself - only for winning.

Alice Walker

#9. Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.

Betty Smith

#10. By letting go we become free to accept what is new.

Debasish Mridha