Arimoto Keiko Quotes & Sayings

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings. — Ashley Montagu

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out. — Gloria Steinem

I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol. — Barack Obama

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be. — Dianna Agron

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate. — Carlos Salinas

The first duty of the sovereign [is] that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, [which] can be performed only by means of a military force — Adam Smith

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. — Duane Michals

But in more than a few cases, you can draw a straight line from a cop being laid off or a union worker having his or her pension slashed back to the week of 2008 when a handful of Lehman executives took a payoff to mark down their own inventory. — Matt Taibbi

We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger than you. — E.J. Koh

Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling...let us go — Robert W. Service

Nothing human has ever mattered to this world. Nothing human has ever excited the interest of rivers or flowers. Everything fades away in the specks of this blurred haze that the fire of the sun has added to the heat of the light. — Pascal Quignard