Fumiko Takatsu Quotes & Sayings

The world is a bitter thing
For a dreaming heart to bear alone. — Robert Fanney

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help. — George Carlin

He considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence. — Alain De Botton

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth. — Barry Long

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street. — Ralph Hodgson

War can't give life, it can only take it away. — Edwin Starr

There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier. — Alessandro Baricco

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

For her seventh birthday, Mazy Gulliver got a Play Bride set that included a white veil, a plastic bouquet and a rhinestone ring. She immediately organized a wedding celebration under the basketball goal where she married Termy Latham, the boy next door. An argument could be made that the incident was merely the first in a long series of hasty, ill-conceived and unwise decisions about men. — Pamela Morsi

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that. — Barry Sanders

Now I see why you have no trouble getting laid," she said softly.
Tru swallowed. "You didn't before?"
"No. You're kind of an asshole."
"No more than anyone else," he said with a shrug. "Less than some."
She frowned up at him. "But you should be better."
"Why the hell would you think that?"
"Because you're Tru. — Ellen Davis Conner

Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma. — Frederick Lenz