Kawasumi Port Quotes & Sayings

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Rosemary, why do you love books so much?"
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"Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends. — Robin Sloan

For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire. — Will Self

Hard work can't be ignored forever. — John Moraga

The adivasi people have a long and courageous history of resistance that predates the birth of Maoism. To look upon them as brainless puppets being manipulated by a few middle-class Maoist ideologues is to do them something of a disservice. — Arundhati Roy

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. — Brande Roderick

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway. — David Levithan