Gushiken Japanese Quotes & Sayings

we've got all these — James Patterson

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives. — Fred Melamed

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom. — Ryan Lochte

It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. — Jessi Kirby

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory — Harlan Ellison

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about - subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either — Hilton Als

Half the time I have no idea what I'm doing. The other half, I'm trying to undo what I did when I didn't know what I was doing. That leaves, let's see now ... one more half. That last half is divided into three halves, one for working, one for writing, and one for asking the mother of all rhetorical questions ... WTF? — Suki Michelle

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation. — Ignatius Of Antioch

I had had a classical education prior to that. — Skitch Henderson

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do. — Dougray Scott

Hey, I said we don't carry weapons, I didn't say we couldn't defend ourselves." Captain Stanley Memphis, head of alien team disguised as pint-sized critters on a quest to learn if humans are savage bastards or a benevolent tribe. — Delilah Jean Williams

People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility. — Rajneesh