Hiroyasu Quotes & Sayings

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. — Margaret Thatcher

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance. — Edward Snowden

One must repeat one's confession of faith from time to time, actually state what one condones, what one condemns; for the opposing camp isn't silent either. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One had to speak of sex; one had to speak publicly and in a manner that was not determined by the division between licit and illicit, even if the speaker maintained the distinction for himself (which is what these solemn and preliminary declarations were intended to show): one had to speak of it as of a thing to be not simply condemned or tolerated but managed, inserted into systems of utility, regulated for the greater good of all, made to function according to an optimum. Sex was not something one simply judged; it was a thing one administered. — Michel Foucault

Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world. — Patricia Churchland

From what Ayyan had heard of the battles of the Brahmins, it would be bloodless but brutal. They would fight like demons armed with nothing more than deceit and ideals - another form of deceit among men from good families. — Manu Joseph

You couldn't plan on when love would find you; you only had to be open to it. — Elena Aitken

Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips. — Kate Brian

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it. — Henry David Thoreau

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record. — Benmont Tench

Home is the best place to be sick in. — Margaret Deland

... Angus had a "pretty normal childhood." Bertie had immediately mistrusted him. Nobody had a normal childhood. — Kate Atkinson

The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others' lives. — Chris Matakas