Damo Suzuki Quotes & Sayings

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them. — Cesare Beccaria

Genes do not make you, any more than brain chemistry makes you hungry, food makes you breathe, breathing makes you die. — Johnny Rich

It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution. — Sunday Adelaja

If they're uncomfortable to who you are, maybe they're not your native flock. Find your own, liberate yourself and live as you meant to be. — Assegid Habtewold

Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king. — Mark Lawrence

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle — Barbara W. Tuchman

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do. — Rosie Perez

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. — Elliott Abrams

The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up. — Emil Cioran

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again. — Zhang Xiaogang

I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came. — Patricia Schroeder

It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to. — Jeremy Lin

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good. — Walter Mosley