Katsuya Kitamura Quotes & Sayings

As soon as men who believe they are doing God's will get hold of power, whether household or village or in Jerusalem or Rome itself, the devil enters them. It isn't long before they start drawing up lists of punishments for all kinds of innocent activities, sentencing people to be flogged or stoned in the name of God for wearing this or eating that or believing the other. And the privileged ones will build great palaces and temples to strut around in, and levy taxes on the poor to pay for their luxuries...and put them poor harmless heretics they flush out to horrible public deaths, to terrify the rest into obedience. — Philip Pullman

Despite the walls she surrounded herself with, the thief had somehow let her own heart get stolen. — C.L.Stone

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city. — Ruta Sepetys

Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer. — James Richardson

In the passing of an instant everything stopped and there he stood at the bottom of the ocean in perfect stillness. He gazed into a strange and eerie light that seemed to draw closer as the fear in his heart faded. An amazing tunnel was extending towards him, smooth shiny walls in the night. Reaching his hand out to touch it he wondered; if he were to die in that moment, where would the life inside him go? His heart, bursting with unspent love and the breathtaking happiness in his soul, just disappearing into the ocean. Two more handfuls of salt dissolving in a world barely able to justify its own existence.

He heard a rushing sound as the sea inhaled again just before it struck him in the chest. A wall of sand and stones that blew him off his feet and sent him back out, his last thought escaping him in a long trail of bubbles.

'Stop fighting now Thomas - it's over. — Kevin Keely

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun. — Jeff Bridges

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne. — Charles William Eliot

I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told — Nicki Minaj

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one. — Michael J. Saylor

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside. — Darren Star

Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption — Kevin DeYoung