Akechi Confidant Quotes & Sayings

to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years. Such, it seemed, was the joy of man, either in elfland or on earth; the happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do. — G.K. Chesterton

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age. — Peter D. Kramer

There is no room in war for delicate machinery. — Archibald Wavell

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody. — Al Capone

Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly — Vandana Shanker

I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one time in their lives. The fisherman held a rod in his hand and said yes and the painter held a brush in his hand and said yes and sometimes I hold a beer in my hand and say yes. — Sherman Alexie

She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand. — Ann Brashares

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible. — Michael Phelps

I like to read books. I like to listen to music. — Haruki Murakami

The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world — Anagarika Govinda

There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about them, like De Niro, like Gary Oldman. — Kevin Corrigan