Kimiya Japanese Quotes & Sayings

We tried to outpace the thing that chased us, that said: You are nothing. We tried to ignore it, but sometimes we caught ourselves repeating what history said, mumbling along, brainwashed: I am nothing. We drank too much, smoked too much, were abusive to ourselves, to each other. We were bewildered. There is a great darkness bearing down on our lives, and no one acknowledges it. — Jesmyn Ward

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. — Woodrow Wilson

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror's will — Belcampo

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk? — Tennessee Williams

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman

The holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Many Americans and Western Europeans proudly trumpet the diversity of cosmopolises like London and New York without realizing that cosmopolitanism does not mean people of different skin colors all sitting around over wine at a bistro table complaining about organized religion. It means people who hold profoundly different, even mutually exclusive, beliefs and cultural norms functioning in a shared space based on toleration of disagreement. — Jonathan A.C. Brown

It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board. — Lionel Suggs

She read the letter again and tried to imagine what it would feel like to be so desperate for a response that you would drop all sense of dignity and propriety and dash from the house at the first sight of the postman. — Charlie Lovett

Sometimes my mind wanders; other times it leaves completely — Anonymous

But for the moment, she said, her previous studies with trout suggest that fish in pain will not behave normally, that they will either be less alert to the potential danger or ignore it completely. "I think it shows that painful experiences do affect the ability of fish to make decisions; that they're in a vulnerable state after something painful happens to them because they are suffering. Fish have the cognitive capacity to experience emotions, and are self-aware, and conscious," Braithwaite said. — Virginia Morell

In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to attempt such a harmony in the garden of the Institute would have defeated my purposes. For the walls here were of an intricate Italian baroque style, with little windows, heads of satyrs, doorways, and sculpturesque mouldings. It was within such a frame that I was to represent the life of an age which had nothing to do with baroque refinements
a new life which was characterized by masses, machines, and naked mechanical power. So I set to work consciously to over-power the ornamentation of the room. — Diego Rivera

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air. — Peter S. Beagle

Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge. — Eden Robinson