Chuuya Nakahara Quotes & Sayings

What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again? — Jennifer Niven

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. — Donald Miller

It was incredible, she told herself, that this ravening monster, dripping blood from claws and teeth, that had arisen roaring in the night, could be the Humanity that had become her God. She had thought revenge and cruelty and slaughter to be the brood of Christian superstition, dead and buried under the new-born angel of light, and now it seemed that the monsters yet stirred and lived. — Robert Hugh Benson

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone. — Antonis Samaras

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein

As to whether a poem has been written by a great poet or not, this is important only to historians of literature. Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that I have written a beautiful line; let us take this as a working hypothesis. Once I have written it, that line
does me no good, because, as I've already said, that line came to me from the Holy Ghost, from the subliminal self, or perhaps from some other writer. I often find I am merely quoting something I read some time ago, and then that becomes a rediscovering. Perhaps it is better that a poet should be nameless. — Jorge Luis Borges

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead. — Fannie Flagg

They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.
Each had tried to find love with other people.
But all that was now finished. — Guillaume Musso

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things. — Michael Franti

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. — Edward Abbey

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico! — Bob Hope

The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity. — Thomas C. Oden

Newspaper and radio rule this country. — Sam Selvon

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire