Chiune Quotes & Sayings

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave. — Chiune Sugihara

Its boring not to take risks — Madonna Ciccone

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as - what I knew was that I worried a lot — David Foster Wallace

Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone. — Chiune Sugihara

Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge. — Chiune Sugihara

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman — Laurie R. King

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle. — Rudy Giuliani

He was standing apart from the others, a dark, brooding figure concealed in shadows.
Jacob Stone was a man who was at home in shadows.
Ever since Emily had first become aware of his existence five years ago, she had understood that he prowled the fringes of her family's world. He was part bodyguard, part troubleshooter and, to Emily's way of thinking, part enforcer for Ravenscroft International. Like the last of the lobo wolves, he was rarely seen in broad daylight, let alone in the firm's executive suites or at its glittering social functions. And the only times he had been invited into her father's private study were on those occasions when Emily had needed rescuing from her latest predicament. — Jayne Ann Krentz

Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse
no man-made laws anyway
this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse. — Randy Alcorn

Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't? — Rachel Kushner

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us. — Paulo Coelho

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds. — Mark Twain