Masateru Ito Quotes & Sayings

Society was in a fearful state. When human life was held at so cheap a rate and when brutal courage was at such a premium; when men had no compunction about getting drunk, if rum could be had; when it was no robbery to take all a Tory had, and no murder to hang him; when children grew to manhood who had never spent a month in the schoolroom, and who had never heard a sermon, it was not to be expected that the morals of the people would be high, or their manners refined, or their intelligence considerable. — George Gilman Smith

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.) — Elizabeth Peters

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose. — Veronica Roth

This was bad behavior, and she knew it. She did it because she was angry and because she disliked herself. The more she disliked herself, the more she took it out on other people, and the more she took it out on other people the more she disliked herself — Lev Grossman

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks. — Robert Browning

We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others. — Sheldon B. Kopp

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing — Jacob Bannon

The sea only drowns its lovers. — Christopher Isherwood

Reason functions as a basis of responsibility before God precisely because of its ability to serve in the instigation, nurture, and correction of faith. Because of this ability, we are responsible before God if we do not abide according to its results. To disparage the role of reason in the production and sustenance of faith is to contradict the plain intent of the scriptures, according to which reason provides adequate grounds to support a right worship of God. — Dallas Willard

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life's sanctity, is a "civil war" waged by humanity against itself. — Daisaku Ikeda

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. — Mary Baker Eddy

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form. — Norm MacDonald

Deepen your faith in yourself.
Nothing will be able
To frighten or weaken you. — Sri Chinmoy