Komachi 1 Quotes & Sayings

Though we knew each other without overlapping our clothes, still, with this autumn wind's sound, I find myself waiting for you. — Ono No Komachi

Making room for gleaning limits and disciplines our daily exercise of power. Any of us who possesses any significant power should ask each day what we might leave undone that day for the sake of others' creativity. But on a weekly basis we are commanded not just to leave margins around our exercise of power but to withdraw from it altogether. In the practice of sabbath, as of making room for gleaning, we once again play in the footsteps of the Creator God, whose work was not without rest and within whose sabbath all the rest of the story has unfolded. — Andy Crouch

World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses. — Tanith Lee

What is it about this twilight hour? Even the sound of a barely perceptible breeze pierces the heart. — Ono No Komachi

Is this love reality
Or a dream?
I cannot know,
When both reality and dreams
Exist without truly existing. — Ono No Komachi

Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it. — Robert Redford

I long for him most
during these hot moonless nights.
I lie awake, hot,
the growing fires of passion
bursting, blazing in my heart. — Ono No Komachi

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. — George W. Bush

A thing which fades With no outward sign- Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world! — Ono No Komachi

Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on. — Erma Bombeck

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth - how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside. — Ono No Komachi

Tears that but form gems on sleeves
must come, I think,
from an insincere heart,
for mine, though I seek to repress them,
gush forth in torrents. — Ono No Komachi

How will your new job differ from your current job? — Ben Horowitz

When my desire
grows too fierce
I wear my bed clothes
inside out,
dark as the night's rough husk. — Ono No Komachi

However wildly
this year's cherry blossoms bloom,
I'll see them
with the plum's scent
filling my heart. — Ono No Komachi