Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
S. J. Perelman
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
Vidal Sassoon
Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
Rainbow Rowell
God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
Ralph Steadman
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Saint Teresa of Avila
It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
Victoria Osteen
God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
Natalie Cole
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
Parker Palmer
Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
Adam Hamilton
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
Paddy Chayefsky
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
Salman Rushdie
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright
I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
Twyla Tharp
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
Oswald Chambers
Cause even the stars they burn, some even fall to the earth. We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.
Jason Mraz
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.
Bill Burr
The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.
Ellen Willis
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
Abdurrahman Wahid
