Katsuko Kurose Quotes & Sayings

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts. — Rene Gutteridge

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff. — Geena Davis

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally. — John Wooden

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything. — Lucy R. Lippard

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall. — Ben Shapiro

Then Loki flew as a falcon about the keep, peering into each window as he went. In the farthest room, through a barred window, he saw Idunn, sitting and weeping, and he perched on the bars. "Cease your weeping!" he said. "It is I, Loki, here to rescue you!" Idunn glared at him with red-rimmed eyes. "It is you who are the source of my troubles," she said. "Well, perhaps. But that was so long ago. That was yesterday's Loki. Today's Loki is here to save you and to take you home." "How? — Neil Gaiman

Gentle reader, we see God through our assholes in the flash bulb of orgasm. — William S. Burroughs

The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask. — Mark Plotkin

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force. — Dorothy Day

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn

Benedict Arnold was appointed to the rank of general in the Continental Army by George Washington during the American War of Independence. It was up to him to protect the fortifications at West Point, New York, which in 1802 became the U.S. Military Academy. Arnold however planned to surrender his command to the British forces. When his treasonous act was discovered Arnold fled down the Hudson River to the British sloop-of-war Vulture, avoiding capture by the forces of George Washington, who had previously been alerted to the plot. Arnold was hailed a hero by the British, who gave him a commission in the British Army as brigadier general. In the winter of 1782, after the war, he moved to London with his wife where he was received as a hero by King George III. In the United States his name "Benedict Arnold" became synonyms for the words "TRAITOR & TREASON."
Cohorting with a foreign power to overthrow the government or purposely aiding the enemy is an act of Treason! — Hank Bracker