Indonesia Quotes

Anxiety's already tingling my skin.

~ S.a. Tawks

A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.

~ S.a. Tawks

Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives.

~ S.a. Tawks

Do you want me to call the internet police for you?

~ S.a. Tawks

Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is.

~ S.a. Tawks

In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.

~ S.a. Tawks

Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

~ S.a. Tawks

I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through.

~ S.a. Tawks

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.

~ S.a. Tawks

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.

~ S.a. Tawks

I have two moods when I get drunk. The common mood is the lazy, happy-go-lucky guy. The uncommon mood is the frustrated, self-deprecating guy. That night was the latter.

~ S.a. Tawks

I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.

~ S.a. Tawks

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.

~ S.a. Tawks

You'll be making so much cash that you won't know what to waste it on.

~ S.a. Tawks

For you, I do morning price.

~ S.a. Tawks

My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.

~ S.a. Tawks

The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You’re flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.

~ Tucker Elliot

The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. It’s an amazing, beautiful world we live in … despite Uncle Google’s abysmal view of American schools, the security checkpoints and vehicle inspections that seem to be everywhere, and the need to be vigilant because of the things we do to each other.

~ Tucker Elliot

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

~ Tucker Elliot

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.

~ S.a. Tawks

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.

~ Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught hatred. I’ve seen it up close and personal. It’s antithetical to everything I believe in as a teacher. The mandate for all teachers is to instill hope, not fear and hatred.

~ Tucker Elliot

It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful—rather, it’s this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

~ Tucker Elliot

The sun appeared between the twin spires of the cathedral as its light reflected off the crescent and star that rose out of the dome on top of the mosque. It was beautiful, and surreal. In one instant, the bells rang out from the cathedral and if I closed my eyes then I could easily imagine that I was back home in Europe, but in the next, the call to morning prayer sounded from the mosque, and it was a stark reminder of how far away I actually was from my true home.

~ Tucker Elliot

The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester United tee shirts with 'Rooney' on the back, twisting further the attitudes and perceptions of those who were bent already toward radicalism.

~ Tucker Elliot

It was only a couple of chickens. Real chickens. The kind that walk around clucking and pecking. Which is what they were doing. Only no one else seemed to care, or even notice. This is normal? Obviously I had a little hiccup reading my notecards. Understandable. I was talking to forty orphans who had to share a dirt floor with two chickens. No one in college had ever prepared me for this scenario.

~ Tucker Elliot

The absolute value of being neutral is zero.

~ Toba Beta

When bad news sells, money politics buys.

~ Toba Beta

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

~ Tucker Elliot

Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.

~ Tucker Elliot

Don’t be an asshole. Just because you have one, it doesn’t mean it’s okay to act like it.

~ Christian Simamora

There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

A gut full of heroin and the looming possibility of bunking in an overcrowded cell in Kerobokan to await my death makes you feel a bit sorry for some of the things you've done.

~ S.a. Tawks

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.

~ S.a. Tawks

All you young Aussies just want to fuck and get fucked up, no?

~ S.a. Tawks

Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods, we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us. Our journeys, we found, were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds. What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest, an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens, dragons and pirates, cannibals and headhunters, mystics and magicians.

~ Lawrence Blair

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

~ John Anthony Miller

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

~ S.a. Tawks

Anyone can do the wrong thing if they really want to.

~ S.a. Tawks