Ken Ryu Quotes & Sayings

I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences. — Christine Lagarde

It was an earthquake, tearing at the sons of America, trying to swallow them up. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sons, that women had reared, had kissed and screamed at, and that fathers had stared intently in their cots, to see themselves in the wondrous mirrors of their babies. — Sebastian Barry

Marriage, [ ... ], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. — Malcolm Bradbury

And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon — Mina Loy

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions. — Rene Descartes

And what more could a man hope for but to conquer death? — Brent Weeks

They saw me as a freak show. I frightened people because I was someone to whom the worst was happening, and they turned on me like a pack of dogs. I've — Gilly Macmillan

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen. — Ben Affleck

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong. — David Beckham

But the Alim laughed at this. 'And we know who they are. Allah have pity on the Anglicans! Samad, when the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intellect go away,' said the Alim, shaking his head. 'And one third of his religion. — Zadie Smith

It is hard to write, not, as might be expected, for reasons of metre or scholarship or elaborate symbolism, but because the actual writing depends almost entirely on the chance, the mood, the energy, of the moment. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature. — M.F. Moonzajer

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

You are my shams. — Jalaluddin Rumi

The moment they met, Simon had decided that if looks matched personalities, Jon Cartwright would look like a horse's ass. Unfortunately, there is no justice in the world, and he looked instead like a walking Ken doll. Sometimes first impressions were misleading; sometimes they peered straight through to a person's inner soul. Simon was as sure now as he'd ever been: Jon's inner soul was a horse's ass. — Cassandra Clare