Ishiyama Honganji Quotes & Sayings

I have known a great many politicians who have not managed to stay in power for 16 years. I have nevertheless already managed to remain at the helm for 18 years. I still want to achieve a great many things for my country. Experience is not a disadvantage here, especially as the head of government of a small country in a European setting that has become more difficult. — Jean-Claude Juncker

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk. — Stephen Rodrick

Eternity is not much longer than life. — Rene Char

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice. — Anna Godbersen

Remember, emotions themselves are neither good nor bad. They are simply our psychological responses to the events of life. — Gary Chapman

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious. — Emmy Swain

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer.
It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was himself being sacrificed: in the precept, that the end justifies the means. It was this sentence which had killed the great fraternity of the Revolution and made them run amuck. What had he once written in his diary? We have thrown overboard all conventions, our sole guiding principle is that of consequent logic; we are sailing without ethical ballast. — Arthur Koestler

You know the way of the wind in the night - the desolate alleys my soul takes — John Geddes

You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. — Lorenzo Scupoli

With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own. — Sophie Hannah

I'd kiss you but I don't want our beards to tangle. — Penny Reid

All that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel. — Carlos Fuentes