Tunku Abdul Quotes

#1. In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#2. The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#3. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

Michael Dorris

#4. The flight was extremely normal ... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

Pete Conrad

#5. Maybe who we were in the past informed who we chose to be in the future.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Never judge. Step in their shoes.

Maria Ressa

#7. Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

Joseph Heller

#8. Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#9. Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#10. It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

#11. To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Henry Wilson Allen

#12. We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#13. Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#14. It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

Thomas Hobbes

#15. Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#16. All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#17. In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#18. Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

Carol Alt