Yeo Bee Yin (1983) Malaysian Politician
Yeo Bee Yin (2018) cited in " Yeo: You don't need to know me, you need to know how https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/07/12/yeo-you-dont-need-to-know-me-you-need-to-know-how/" on The Star Online, 12 July 2018
Qin Shi Huang (-258–-210 BC) founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty
Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian
“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
“Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.”
Michael Ende book The Neverending Story
Source: The Neverending Story
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
As quoted in Until Tomorrow Comes (1979) by Orville E. Kelly, p. 160
“When I play music, that is my best yoga, the best meditation, the best prayer.”
Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1
Elegies
Source: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
“I looked and looked but I didn't see God.”
Yuri Gagarin (1934–1968) Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
As quoted in To Rise from Earth (1996) by Wayne Lee; some websites quote him as saying "I looked and looked and looked but I didn't see God." on 14 April 1961, a couple days after his historic flight, but the authenticity of such statements have been disputed; Colonel Valentin Petrov stated in 2006 http://www.interfax-religion.ru/orthodoxy/?act=interview&div=73&domain=1 that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there." Gagarin himself was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. <br class="br">As quoted in What's Missing Inside You? (2006) by Paul Schlieker, p. 17 <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: No I didn't see God. I looked and looked but I didn't see God.
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) selected and compiled by James Wood.
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
Aussitôt qu'une pensée vraie est entrée dans notre esprit, elle jette une lumière qui nous fait voir une foule d'autres objets que nous n'apercevions pas auparavant.
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards.
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
“Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Compare to the Bible, Luke 12:34 (For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.)(NIV translation).
Variant: Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards.
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 104. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
"On the Principles of Political Morality that Should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic" (5 February 1784/18 Ploviôse Year 2)
“The epitaph of an RSS man will be: he was born, went to shakha, and died.”
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, writer and playwright
Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 256
