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

• At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.

  

  Donald Wuerl
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Time
  • Age
  • Way

• The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Solitude

• A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.

  

  Ernest Fenollosa
  • Action
  • Eye
  • Cutting

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

  

  Chairil Anwar
  • Cutting
  • Solitude
  • Beast