Kyoko Mori School Quotes & Sayings

The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling. — W.G. Sebald

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work. — Robin Leach

You will never be able to live with two kinds of people; greedy rich and arrogant poor. — M.F. Moonzajer

Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he? — Madeleine L'Engle

Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and body grease. — David Mitchell

The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about. — R. Joseph Hoffmann

Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Until such time as one has put to oneself a certain number of questions about an author, and has answered them, be it only to oneself alone and under one's breath, one cannot be sure of having grasped him completely, even though the questions may seem quite foreign to the nature of his writings: What were his religious ideas? How did the spectacle of nature affect him? How did he behave in the matter of women, of money? Was he rich, poor; what was his diet, his daily routine? What was his vice or his weakness? None of the answers to these questions is irrelevant. Even so, the answers tend to be surprising. However brilliant, however wise the work, it seems that the lives of artists can be relied upon to exhibit an extraordinary, incongruous range of turmoil, misery, and stupidity. — Alain De Botton

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. — Markus Zusak

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it. — Tim Wise