Akinori Iwamura Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all — David Levithan

I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ... — John Geddes

Destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path. — Mario Puzo

When you're broken," she whispered to the man who would save the world for her, "you can't see hope. We must be their hope. — Nalini Singh

Some of the cruelest men in the world were born with silver tongues. They could charm a bird right out of the sky, only to break its wings. And no men, nice or cruel, offer favors lightly - not strangers. Not to young women. Not without expecting something back in return. — Nenia Campbell

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication. — Idries Shah

She said that no system based on arcana or esoteric knowledge would survive this age. No new revealed religion could take hold in it. — Anne Rice

Cheating with the bottle is not a mere distraction, not an evening's entertainment, but an out-and-out commitment, a contract, a pledge, and it led him to turn away from his wife utterly and with finality. Todd's mother was a forsaken woman, her loneliness a mist that enveloped him throughout his childhood. — A.S.A Harrison

It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over His head, after all. What is often overlooked, however, is that it is precisely because of their allegiance to that king - Jesus - that Rome persecuted His followers.
That the God of the Jews should father a son with magical powers was no more offensive to the Romans than the idea that Zeus should father Hercules. But what was intolerable was the fact that Jesus' followers did not stop with recognizing Him as divine; they had the audacity to claim He was their actual sovereign.
In short, while the Jews preserved their religion by shouting, "We have no king but Caesar," the early Christians sealed their fate by unabashedly declaring, "We have no king but Jesus! — Christopher Gorton