Matsukata Assassination Quotes & Sayings

My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In other words, doing something I understand and that everyone understands. This natural desire for communication is also found in other domains, like reading and discourse, etc. I also hate repeating myself; it gives me no pleasure whatsoever. Once I've understood something, I need to start off on new ground. — Gerhard Richter

Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufis compare our spiritual heart, the seat of God within us, with a cup into which the love of God flows. This cup, however, needs to be emptied before it can be filled with Divine love. This emptying is a long process that requires courage, strength of character, determination, and, above all, sincerity. It is a process of reining in and eventually extinguishing the ego, of letting go of material needs, bad and unhealthy habits and emotional attachments in order to make room for God. Sufis often likened it to the process of dying and being born again. 'Die before you die' is a famous Sufi saying. This was the essence of every spiritual path, Gai told me. — Kristiane Backer

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go. — Jim Bouton

My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?" — Michelle Obama

Your people are losing your jobs to your machines. You put mechanizing everything and making it efficient above your people's happiness, and you wonder why they aren't happy? — Ekaterina Sedia

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. — Barack Obama

Running has been almost my savior. — Matthew Morrison

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken. — Dave Eggers

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. — Doris Lessing

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away. — Francesca Lia Block

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman