Kaoruko Matsukawa Quotes & Sayings

I know what it's like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it's like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We've spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don't try to make me feel guilty!
-Tally Youngblood, Extras — Scott Westerfeld

Reason is overrated. Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are superior to triangulations of overeducated policy wonks, like the best and brightest and that dragged us into the quagmire of Vietnam. And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction? In this way of thinking, it's character and conscience, not cold-hearted calculation, that will save us. Besides, a human being is not a brain on a stick. My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led by our bodies and our emotions and use our puny powers of reason merely to rationalize our gut feelings after the fact — Steven Pinker

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can't sing,I can always continue listening to it. — Shreya Ghoshal

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead! — Ted Dekker

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology. — Ray Romano

I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear. — Henry Rollins

Every tree is known by its fruits. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see . — William Shakespeare

I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo. — Jessica Collins

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces. — Yitzhak Rabin

When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal. — Didier Drogba