A Quotes
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“Adapun sekarang teman setia, saya akan bercerita kepadamu. Tentu saja benar-benar dari hati ke hati tentang berbagai hal mengenai rencana kami. Jalan bagi kami untuk berdiri sendiri akan terbuka. Dengan demikian sekaligus kami dapat mengabdikan diri kepada sesama manusia seperti: dokter, bidan, guru, pengarang, ahli dalam berbagai seni rupa. Jalan yang lainnya masih terbuka juga bagi kami untuk hidup berdiri sendiri. Tetapi kami tidak ingin menempuh jalan itu, karena pekerjaan itu tidak bermanfaat bagi bangsa kami. Apakah gunanya bagi bangsa kami apabila kami misalnya menjadi pembantu apoteker, pemegang buku, pengetuk kawat, klerek pada salah satu kantor dan lain-lain macam itu? Lingkungan kerja dan kehidupan terikat kepada pekerjaan seperti itu tidak menarik hati kami. Kami ingin hidup kaya dengan jasa dan penuh dengan cita-cita.”
Source: Surat-Surat Kartini: Renungan Tentang dan Untuk Bangsanya
“Adara, cease!"
She froze at the sound of a voice she hadn't expected to hear. For a moment she thought she might be dreaming, until she blinked to look up into the most handsome face she'd ever known. She stared at the same blue eyes that made the tenderest of love to her.
Christian.
Her grip went lax and the candlestick in her hand fell to the floor. He was alive!
She threw herself into his arms and held him close as giddy tears replaced her grief-induced ones. At least until her rage took hold again. "Damn you, you worthless, heartless son of a dog!" she snarled, pulling back to strike at his chest. "How dare you make me think you were dead! Don't you ever do such a thing to me again. "
Christian was stunned by her language and actions. "I didn't know you could hear us through the door."
She struck him again on his armor, a blow that no doubt he felt not at all, but it gave her some degree of satisfaction. "Well, think better next time."
Her untoward anger amused him. Wiping the tears from her face, he kissed her tenderly.”
Source: Return of the Warrior
“Adarusa
Hapaheman yang merubuhkan pohon itu adalah kerabat dekatmu
Batu yang dulu kaupungut dari sungai dan membawanya ke tepi
Jejak yang ia tinggalkan di atas tanah tegalan yang kekeringan
Dan janji yang tak terbeli.
Istrinya adalah sekuntum mawar yang layu sebelum waktunya
Sandyakala yang mendadak tua setelah melahirkan 3 ekor anak burung;
Seekor burung gagak
Seekor burung prenjak
Dan seekor merpati yang pemalu namun baik hati.
Mereka tak pernah terbang terlalu jauh dari sarang itu.
Sarang yang bukan miliknya
Rumah yang tak pernah ia dirikan untuk keluarga.
Karena ia hanyalah seekor adarusa.
Tak ada yang dimilikinya sendiri kecuali hutang-hutang masa lalu;
Tanah yang tak pernah ia cangkul.
Benih yang tak pernah ia tanam.
Adakah kemarahan semacam itu akan terpendam selamanya?
Seekor pejantan lancung yang hanya bisa datang saat ia lapar
Dan lalu pergi hanya untuk memenuhi egonya sendiri.
Ia telah menjadi beban bagi masa silam
Dan batu yang kian hari kian memberati
Sayap-sayap kelam yang tak mampu terbang lagi.
Telah tua ia sekarang
Masih dengan tabiat yang sama
Watak yang sepertinya hendak ia bawa mati
Langit sekarat menunggu waktu
Segala apa yang ia punya, hanyalah luka
Bukan nama atau harta untuk diwariskan.
Takdir dan nasib buruk serupa suara guntur di kejauhan.
Ia adalah hapaheman yang merubuhkan pohon
Tempat di mana sarang itu berada.
Sarang yang ditinggali istri dan tiga anak-anaknya.
November 2025”
“Adat Berdaulat. Saya kira adat berdaulat harus terus digemakan. Dan bukan hanya di Aceh, adat sebagai peradaban dikenal di seluruh tanah Melayu Asia Tenggara. Kalau Yunani yang kecil bisa memenuhi kepala setiap orang di dunia dengan demokrasi, mestinya wilayah tanah Melayu yang luas juga bisa diseminasikan gagasan-gasasan khas adat kepada dunia.”
Source: Adat Berdaulat: Melawan Serbuan Kapitalisme di Aceh
“Adat bersendi syarak, syarak bersendi kitabullah, syarak mengata, adat memakai. Maknanya, adat Minangkabau itu merujuk pada agama dan agama merujuk pada Al-Quran. Agama yang memberikan fatwa, adat yang melaksanakannya. Antara agama dan adat itu tidak untuk dipertentangkan, tapi saling bersandar satu sama lain. Kalian amalkan agama, tapi kalian hormati pula adat istiadat kita yang kaya ini. Adat yang baik kita pakai, yang buruk kita buang.”
Source: Anak Rantau
“Adat dipahami sebagai perangkat menyeluruh–ideologi, strategi dan praktik– yang memadai dan lebih adil dibandingkan ideologi dan praktik kapitalisme yang terbukti meminggirkan, merusakrampas ruang-ruang hidup dan rentan terhadap krisis.”
Source: Adat Berdaulat: Melawan Serbuan Kapitalisme di Aceh
“Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.”
“Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.”
“Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“Add a fresh twist of creativity to make a stellar impression which people won’t soon forget. Granted, your venue will determine how far you can stretch and how creative you can be. Making small tweaks to your conversation starters can make a memorable impact!”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.”
“Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.”
“Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.”
“Add boyish, slim as a board, pancake. It's okay, I've heard it all."
He raised his head and said mildly, "I wasn't thinking in terms of your chest size."
"Good thing as I don't have one." She smirked and popped a big chunk of potato into her mouth. "The nice thing is I can run without those things flying in my face, too." And damn if she didn't make a comical face that had him shouting with laughter.”
Source: Scales
“Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.”
“Add energy into your relationship.”
Source: Quantraz
“Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Add in the good stuff - eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff.”
“Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.”
“Add little to little and there will be a big pile.”
“Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”
Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel
“Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!”
“add one
make dumb
add two
make poo”
“Add orange peel and cinnamon to milk. Grate the chocolate.'
The hard, round cake of chocolate was wrapped in yellow plastic with red stripes, shiny and dark when she opened it. The chocolate made a rough sound as it brushed across the fine section of the grater, falling in soft clouds onto the counter, releasing a scent of dusty back rooms filled with bittersweet chocolate and old love letters, the bottom drawers of antique desks and the last leaves of autumn, almonds and cinnamon and sugar.
Into the milk it went.
'Add anise.'
Such a small amount of ground spice in the little bag Abuelita had given her. It lay there quietly, unremarkable, the color of wet beach sand. She undid the tie around the top of the bag and swirls of warm gold and licorice danced up to her nose, bringing with them miles of faraway deserts and a dark, starless sky, a longing she could feel in the back of her eyes, her fingertips.”
Source: The School of Essential Ingredients
“add peace to faith
and you will discover
a growing family”
“Add performance of each individual and you will get the performance of the entire organization. Sorry to break it to you, that it does not work in that manner.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Add something new to what already there
There are no answers to some of your questions
Questions are great methods for learning something new
A new beginning is a chance for you to change
Change what makes you cheap
A cheap behavior is not from God
God exists
Brush your teeth before you eat
Eat healthy for a healthy body and mind
Mind your business and your business will grow
Grow a routine of daily readying habit every day
Every day is a gift from God
God exists
Come join the game
The game is your life
Your life on earth is full of games
Games are amusing and entertaining sometimes
Sometimes people see God
God exists
Dance every day for a good day
A good day always happens for an honest person
An honest person is always thankful no matter what
What you need is love
Love unlimited love for unlimited love
Unlimited love comes from God
God exists
Eight days are not in a week but seven
Seven lessons are not enough for strength
Strength is pretty and inside
Inside a child is undiscovered moments
Moments may occur only once
Once we happened we are watched by God
God exists
Flowers can fly if they believe
Believe whites can harm you like sugar and sault
Sault can save someone’s life
Life begins when a person is free
Free things are always not free
Free your life from judgment and you will be free
Free your time every day to pray
Pray always to God
God Exists
Youth is present and pleases
Pleases are desired and expensive
Expensive like yesterday
Yesterday was and will never be is
Is hope a wish or a target or neither
Neither today nor yesterday is tomorrow
Tomorrow is a gift from God
God exists
Zero is a digit and an oval shape
Shape your destiny, which endures
Endures are everlasting life
Life without God is not life
Life with love is with God
God exists”
Source: The Herok
“Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.”
“Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.”
“Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.”
“Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
“Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.”
“Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.”
“Add to total surrender consecration and add to consecration brokenness. The bread didn't multiply when the boy gave it, or when Jesus gave thanks for it, it multiplied when He broke it.”
“Add to your self-esteem by coming out in the open and speaking about what you went though.”
“Add to your self-esteem by coming out in the open and speaking about what you went through.”
“Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.”
“Add up all those hours, days, weeks you've been waiting for all your life! It is from these waiting periods that a period of time arises, long enough to almost live a new life! Waiting is a calamity, a disease that stops life!”
“Add value to your work to add value to your worth”
“Add value to yourself by reading books. The more you read, the more valuable you become.”
“Add value. Touch lives with what you are doing. Keep learning and keep growing. That is how you become a successful human being.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Addams Family blew my mind because it was the first time I was in L.A. and Hollywood, and I grew up a huge fan of movies.”
“Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.”
“Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.”
“Added to all this is the universal dread of reality. We "pale-faces" have it, all of
us, although we are seldom, and most of us never, conscious of it. It is the
spiritual weakness of the "Late" man of the higher civilizations, who lives in his
cities cut off from the peasant and the soil and thereby from the natural
experiencing of destiny, time, and death. He has become too wide awake, too
accustomed to ponder perpetually over yesterday and tomorrow, and cannot bear
that which he sees and is forced to see: the relentless course of things, senseless
chance, and real history striding pitilessly through the centuries into which the
individual with his tiny scrap of private life is irrevocably born at the appointed
place. That is what he longs to forget, refute, or contest. He takes flight from
history into solitude, into imaginary far-away systems, into some faith or another,
or into suicide. Like a grotesque ostrich he buries his head in hopes, ideals, and
cowardly optimism: it is so, but it ought not to be, therefore it is otherwise. We
sing in the woods at night because we are afraid.”
Source: The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution
“Added to the exigencies of structure are the necessities developing about the recurring characters in any [television] series. These types must remain stable enough for audience identification and development of residual personality, yet they are also responsible for satisfying the constant demand for variety. Irwin Blacker indicates the problem of developing character as one of the difficulties of creating a classic Western in the television format. If the story is to have any significance, says Blacker, the people in it must change; yet in a Western series the hero cannot risk change. The writer, therefore, must continually use "guest" characters who are able to develop, change, or die within the context of the weekly episode while the hero functions as a catalyst in that action. This constraint, though preventing the series from developing into a significant drama, achieves a twofold purpose necessary to the continuing story: the variety of secondary plots and character retains audience interest; the stability of the continually developing (but basically unchanging) residual personality of the hero sustains audience loyalty.”
Source: The Western Hero in Film and Television: Mass Media Mythology
“Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.”
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them.”
Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel