Kikis Menu Quotes & Sayings

The end must justify the means. — Matthew Prior

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves. — Willa Cather

Rude is arrogance. Rude is feeling like you're above people. Getting to the point of things ain't rude, sugar. — Belle Aurora

I lived and languished. — Andrei Platonov

1. Is anything impossible for the grace of God? Suppose you bring a light into a room that has been dark a thousand years; does it remove the darkness little by little? The room is lighted all at once. Intense renunciation is what is needed. — Ramakrishna

People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it. — George Carlin

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape
but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know.
You know? — Robin Wasserman

One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'. — Stanislaw Lem

The search for religion is the starting point of thought. — Xu Zhimo

For sixty years tens of thousands of clandestine service officers have gathered only the barest threads of truly important intelligence - and that is the CIA's deepest secret. — Tim Weiner

The capitalist era is passing . . . not quickly, but inevitably. — Jeremy Rifkin

Make a conscious choice. Decide to move your index finger. Too late! The electricity's already halfway down your arm. Your body began to act a full half-second before your conscious self 'chose' to, for the self chose nothing; something else set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes. That little man, that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as the person, mistakes correlation for causality: it reads the summary and it sees the hand move, and it thinks that one drove the other. But it's not in charge. You're not in charge. If free will even exists, it doesn't share living space with the likes of you. — Peter Watts

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished. — Kevin Spacey

Traditionally, a fault divorce was the only means for a married couple to get divorced. It means that one of the spouses it at fault having committed one or more of: cruelty(mental, emotional, physical) , adultery, or deserted the other spouse for no good reason, impotence, among other grounds. No-fault divorce is a divorce in which the dissolution of a marriage does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. It became passed into family/divorce laws in various western nations in 1960s and 1970s. One would imagine that the fault or no-fault of a husband should have an implication on the maintenance amount he can be asked to pay to wife. Unfortunately, things are not that straightforward. — Vivek Deveshwar