Kanjuro Shibata Quotes & Sayings

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings ... — Mary MacLane

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope? — Richard Rorty

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

We are all monsters" Hannah said. "Because we are letting it happen." She said it not as if she believed it but as she were to repeat something she had heard before. — Jane Yolen

Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses. — Tina Fey

What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that. — Chuck Palahniuk

Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light-years away. — Andre Aciman

BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Never surrender opportunity for security. — Branch Rickey

Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful. — Catullus