Kuniyoshi Prints Quotes & Sayings

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. — William S. Burroughs

In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. You — Pico Iyer

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else. — Mikhail Turovsky

[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merely quaint? ... It sounds like a community type that went extinct a generation ago. But it didn't, not completely. If a self-sufficient farming community has survived here, it remains a possibility elsewhere. — Barbara Kingsolver

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy. — Dalai Lama

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged. — Ouida

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win. — Dane Cook

It seemed odd to Sosie that she had to make some hard-and-fast decision about such an arbitrary, individual thing as attraction, like having to declare an orientation major: I am straight with a minor in gay. — Libba Bray

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic. — James Laver

Being this close to him...touching him exhilarated me, while at the same time, I became immersed in a feeling of tranquility. — Alicia Kobishop

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years. — Ivica Dacic

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. — Edith Wharton

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. — Will Durant

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city. — Sara Paretsky