Machiko Kyo Quotes & Sayings

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones. — Catherine Tate

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate. — Albert Einstein

If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God. — Mahatma Gandhi

And yet I love this false, this worthless man,
With all the passion that a woman can;
Dote on his imperfections, though I spy
Nothing to love; I love, and know not why.
— Ephelia

The single most important relationship you have is with yourself; when you realize you are everything, your relationship with yourself can become an infinite expression of love. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

I began to entertain a suspicion, that no man in this age was sufficiently qualified for such an undertaking; and that whatever any one should advance on that head would, in all probability, be refuted by further experience, and be rejected by posterity. Such mighty revolutions have happened in human affairs, and so many events have arisen contrary to the expectation of the ancients, that they are sufficient to beget the suspicion of still further changes. — David Hume

We have an assumption here in America that the kind thing to do is to be "friendly," which means being extroverted, even intrusive. The Japanese assume the opposite: being kind means holding back. — Laurie A. Helgoe

History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase — Rebecca Makkai

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.' — Kenneth Cranham

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass. — George Carlin

All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good. — Louis C.K.

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant. — Doris Lessing

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people. — Johnny Marr

But no man's a hero to himself. — Ray Bradbury