Emperadores Japoneses Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter. — Robert Hass

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. — Thomas Reid

Come on," I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster. — Sangu Mandanna

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives. — Leonard Ravenhill

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage. — John Kasich

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember. — Chuck Palahniuk

Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way. — Marsha Sinetar

Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not; — Hans Christian Andersen

In the end it comes down to two rival versions of the English middle afternoon. Post-Barrett, Pink Floyd kept on in a middle-afternoonish vein, but they fell in love with the idea of portentous storm clouds in the offing somewhere over Grantchester ... Barrett's afternoonishness was far more supple and engaging. It superimposed the hippie cult of eternal solstice on the pre-teatime daydreams of one's childhood, occasioned by a slick of sunlight on a chest of drawers ... His afternoonishness is lit by an importunate adult intelligence that can't quite get back to the place it longs to be ... Barrett created the same precocious longing in adolescents.
I remember 'See Emily Play' drifting across a school corridor in 1967 ... and I remember the powerful wish to stay suspended indefinitely in that music ... I also remember the quasi-adult intimation that this wasn't possible.
[from the London Review of Books for January 2, 2003] — Jeremy Harding

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life. — Edna O'Brien