Jihaku Quotes & Sayings

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics. — Bob Cousy

When I entered the drum, why did it make my heart start pounding? In the small, cramped space, secretly, I was incredibly smitten by her.
While playing, we both decided to try and crawl into the drum. It was dark and smelled faintly of metal. Beyond the mouth of the round drum, we could see the sunlight.
If I turned around, our bodies fit into the drum exactly, and she was right there. Her breathing was echoing. The air around us was very humid.
Somehow the burning feeling in my heart came boiling over, and I put my face close to hers, and gave her a little kiss. Of course it was on the lips.
It was a gentle sensation, and it was the first time I'd ever felt such a strange emotion. She responded with the same feeling. So I kept on kissing her. They were light kisses, but my heart was beating wildly.It was an amazing first time. — Gackt

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature. — Witold Gombrowicz

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily. — Tom Petty

Those sentimental radio hits, with their artificial naivete and empty crudities, are the pitiful remains and the maximum that people will tolerate by way of mental effort; it's a ghastly desolation and impoverishmment. By contrast, we can be very glad when something affects us deeply, and regard the accompanying pains as an enrichment. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic. — Seth Adam Smith

Motorcycle adventures are the perfect antidote to middle age. — Alex Morritt

Decide what your truth is. Then live it. — Kamal Ravikant

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. — Voltaire

Desperation and trust are seldom allies — Ubisoft

When I was a child, I thought I wanted to become a terrorist. I was going to completely destroy human life. I wanted to erase everything. People were the guns of the world. They were the most useless thing on the face of the earth. — Gackt

In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. — Bernard L. Schwartz

Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them. — Gladys Knight

Medicine then must have been such an exciting, desperate, violent business; nowadays it is all pills and bureaucracy. — Julian Barnes

Brave doesn't mean you're not scared, Starr," she says. "It means you go on even though you're scared. And you're doing that." She — Angie Thomas