Hideki Motosuwa Quotes & Sayings

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I swear it on Solin's life. (Arik)
Uh, excuse me? (Solin)
I would, but there's truly no excuse for you. (Arik) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. — G.K. Chesterton

Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. I — Bram Stoker

I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within. — Margaret Thatcher

Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral? — Raymond Geuss

Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away! — Charlotte Alington Barnard

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. — David Eagleman

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Peter suspects that the caltrop is evolving in response to the finches. Where the struggle for existence is fierce, the caltrop that is likeliest to succeed is the plant that puts more energy into spines and less into seeds; but in the safer, more secluded spot, the fittest plants are the ones that put more energy into making seeds and less energy into protecting them. The finches may be driving the evolution of caltrop while caltrop is driving the evolution of the finches. — Jonathan Weiner

We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship. — Russell Eric Dobda

It is in this darkness that I have found all light - somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night. — Coco J. Ginger