Tunku Quotes

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

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#2. Success - or at least the true enjoyment of it - is a perfect marriage between talent, and your courage and ability to market that talent.

Gregor Collins

#3. I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

Morena Baccarin

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

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#5. 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

#6. Grace had learned long ago that the true horrors of this world were other people.

Mindy McGinnis

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. You think we're dancing?" "That's all we've ever done.

Joss Whedon

#11. Um ... is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.

Rick Riordan

#12. In Texas money goes further, with one of the lowest costs of living, one of the lightest tax burdens as a percent of income, and one of the lowest debt-per-capita ratios.

Mark McKinnon

#13. My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

Doris Lessing

#14. She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?

Peter Carey

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

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#16. When you give love, you gain the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#17. No matter what your situation, God is always ready to listen.

Jim George

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.

Clyde Edgerton

#21. If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

Miles Davis

#22. I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.

Brie Larson

#23. I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.

Joyce Giraud