Chairil Anwar Quotes

Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.

Chairil Anwar

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• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Home

• Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fall

• Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Character
  • Play
  • Story

• The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Responsibility

• I am Providence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Society
  • Question
  • Angel

• Tu dolor es tan grande que no debiera dolerte.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Drama

• Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.

  

  Kyp Malone
  • Music
  • Money
  • Boss

• My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

  

  Lee Strobel
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

  

  John Boehner
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Support

• There's a difference between living somewhere and being part of somewhere.

  

  John Boyega

• Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

  

  John Lasseter

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.

  

  Epictetus
  • True
  • Judgments
  • Correctly

• It's tough to lose every day.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera

• There are all kinds of things that can scare you every day. What if someone you know gets cancer? What if something happens to you sister or your friends or your parents? And what if you get hit by a car crossing the street or the kids at school find out what an unnatural freak you are and what if you go too far out in the lake and the water is over your head and what if there's a fire or a war? And you can lie awake at night and worry about these things because it's scary and unpredictable, but it's REAL. It's possible.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Friends

• The root of all evil, if you want to point at it, is politicians that are going to save you and I from terrorists, from illegal immigrants, from drugs. 'Elect me, and I'll save you.'

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Evil

• It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.

  

  Chairil Anwar
  • Cutting
  • Solitude
  • Beast