Kyotaro Azuma Quotes & Sayings

Your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing — Gayle Forman

Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that many of us unconsciously entertain the same feeling about our friends and the members of our family. For there is a curious ambivalence about the human soul: it can love and hate the same object at the same time with almost equal force. Society suspects this. It half realizes that civilization is perpetually menaced because of this primary hostility of men toward one another. Therefore, culture has to summon every possible reinforcement against these aggressive hatreds. Hence the ideal command to love one's neighbor as oneself. This commandment is the strongest defense against human hatred, and even though it is impossible to fulfill it completely, men cling to it. For they unconsciously realize that if this commandment were to be swept away, the world would be a place of chaos and desolation. — Joshua Loth Liebman

Fame hurt. People thought I was a sellout chef and stopped coming to my restaurant. — Chris Cosentino

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence. — William Butler Yeats

Each man kills the thing he loves — Anthony Burgess

I've seen all the Judd Apatow movies, and I'd love to have a really funny little part in one of them some day. — Miranda Cosgrove

that the wars of the past were slowly being forgotten. Shea believed that one could turn his back on the past and build a new world with the future, never understanding that the future was inextricably tied to the past, an interwoven tapestry of events and ideas that would never be entirely severed. — Terry Brooks

There is diversity of belief but it is the same God at work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Have a Blast; Life won't last! Make the Best of Today, before it is gone!-RVM — R.v.m.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices. — Crystal Chappell

I thought about the capacity people have to forgive, and how powerful a force love can be if people will just let it into their lives. — Scott Pratt

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality. — Candace Parker

Prokofiev and I never did become friends, probably because Prokofiev was not inclined towards friendly relations in general. He was a hard man and didn't seem interested in anything than himself and his music. — Dmitri Shostakovich