Kamikazes At Okinawa Quotes & Sayings

I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist. — Edmund White

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease. — William James

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac. — Zan Perrion

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint. — Sid Waddell

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach's writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work. — Thomas Mann

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ... Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it. — Francis Bacon

If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me. — Pedro Almodovar

It is not a mistake to want power. — Gordon Brown

That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content. — Steve Jobs