Komatsuzaki Rui Quotes & Sayings

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

It knew him. And it loved him, without reservation or condition. He didn't have to do anything to earn its affection, or even to keep it. It loved him, always had, always would, and such was simply the way of things. — Jordan L. Hawk

Social Science ... led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay. — David Riesman

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site. — James Young

Bernard of Clairvaux shared with Goethe and Balzac the art of charging narratives with his own charisma (and this is probably the only context in which those three names can be mentioned in one breath). On the surface self-representation was not the purpose of such narratives; they presented themselves as fiction or as commentaries on scripture. Let me suggest the word 'autography' to describe the process. 'Autography' is writing yourself into your own composition, not by describing yourself, but by infusing your own presence into it. The reader feels your presence, but sees someone or something else. — C. Stephen Jaeger

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know. — Augusten Burroughs

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that. — Mats Sundin

It was no use getting angry with Wullie; he lived in a Wullie-shaped world of his own. You had to think diagonally. — Terry Pratchett

God saves a man that he may accomplish his purpose. — Sunday Adelaja

You cannot be other than selfish, for you cannot observe, perceive, or be other than from your perspective of self. All points of Consciousness, even one-celled organisms, perceive. And they do so from the ever-changing selfish perspective that they currently hold. — Esther Hicks

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream. — Virginia Foxx

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast. — Ben Whishaw

He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it — Graham Greene