Quotes by Indonesian Authors - Page 13

One part of my consciousness serves only one realm.
Toba Beta
One of the first lessons I learned in working life was that you don't need to like every one of your colleagues, and they don't need to like you either. You just have to respect them, and getting their respect in return.
Marcella Purnama
Senses disabled by fear.
Toba Beta
Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.
Toba Beta
Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.
Soe Hok Gie
Kau tak boleh mengukur kemampuan seseorang dari usianya.
Bondan Winarno
Romance is good, you know
Ika Natassa
I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.
Toba Beta
If you appreciate, perpetuate and explore your own dreams,then you'll know that dream isn't a one-way communication.
Toba Beta
Menjadi penulis adalah sebuah perjalanan panjang, yang tidak selalu diisi oleh hal-hal yang menyenangkan. Akan selalu ada kritik, akan selalu ada komentar negatif, akan selalu ada kesalahan. Yang terpenting adalah kita belajar dari kesalahan-kesalahan tersebut dan bangkit untuk menggapai mimpi kita.
Winna Efendi
What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is ourselves, which one is not.
Dee Lestari
Soul inhabits body that fits.
Toba Beta
After people pray and receive as they want, they may easily perceive it as the fulfillment.Another may see that as a mere coincidence.As for me, universe keeps doing something that causes some of all creation will start praying for it.
Toba Beta
Sometimes when you don’t expect to meet someone, apparently they will appear in front of you, so many times.
Nina Ardianti
Angels had fallen, men have sinned.It does not mean that God has failed.
Toba Beta
Reading is an activity of civilized beings.
Toba Beta
Don't pretend to comfort me, my friend. I might also pretend to not let you down.
Toba Beta
What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out.
Siren Waroe
I really rarely meet someone with quality like this:has great expectation and persistent efforts to earn it,yet also had a high immunity against disappointment.Jarang sekali aku bertemu orang dengan kualitas seperti ini:memiliki harapan besar dan upaya gigih untuk mencapainya,namun juga punya kekebalan yang tinggi terhadap kekecewaan.
Toba Beta
Gift ain't what you take by effort, as swag ain't what you worthy have.
Toba Beta
You are what you write.
Helvy Tiana Rosa
Sincerity increases willingness to care.
Toba Beta
Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.
Toba Beta
Perfection's stuck.
Toba Beta
We speak of love when we destroy nature.It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.
Toba Beta
There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.
Toba Beta
You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.
Toba Beta
Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.
Toba Beta
If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed.
Toba Beta
Getting victory over a war that you can definitely win is a common thing. Winning a war that is totally based on enemy's terms is undisputable victory.
Toba Beta
The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.
Toba Beta
God created many races wilier than men.But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.
Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: If you are really a master, then make me see miracles!Master of Stupidity: Go to sleep and dream, then wake up thirty years later!
Toba Beta
When you feel terribly angry, you're possessed by anger ghost.
Toba Beta
Enough talk, now read!
Toba Beta
Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!
Toba Beta
When two evil guys fight in a duel,the worst of both will be the winner.
Toba Beta
You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.But if you ever deliberately provoke me, in a way trying to hurt me, I'm so worried that you will die, or injured with heart full of revenge.The kind of revenge which you will never be able to fully retaliate, a revenge that will only add to next innocent victims..in between you and me.
Toba Beta
Memang sulit menulis puisi. Dan untuk apa mempersulit diri sendiri.
Danarto
Whoever won the war, would revise the history.
Toba Beta
Luck, I believe, is where preparation meets opportunity.
Marcella Purnama
Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
When mind stuck, entertain your heart.
Toba Beta
The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.
Toba Beta
Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.
Putu Wijaya
If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time.
Toba Beta
If you're confused about what to do,it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
Toba Beta
Afterlife exist in the unidentified substances.
Toba Beta
I'm beginning to think information is our addictive madness.
Goenawan Mohamad
I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.
Karla M. Nashar
Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance.
Agus Ekanurdi
The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her...if any.
Toba Beta
Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends.I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all.
Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: Master, why do some people so stubborn and unruly ?Master of Stupidity: Only when you want them do according to your wish.
Toba Beta
Mind doesn't work properly when taken intoa higher level where fear dominates the will.
Toba Beta
Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance?Master of Stupidity: That supports the basis of lost-then-found concept.
Toba Beta
It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck.
Eka Kurniawan
If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.
Toba Beta