Meiji Restoration Historian Quotes & Sayings

It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant). — Bill Konigsberg

Vampyre High Council. Wasn't clueing them in to that a little more important — P.C. Cast

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame. — P. J. O'Rourke

Thinking is an act of creating sunshine! The more we think, the more our way will be illuminated! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!' — Joe Nichols

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try." He blinked and laughed softly. "I never know what you'll say next." "I don't either. — Ilona Andrews

Never hesitate to steal a good idea. — Al Neuharth

Camille's tear-streaked face flashed for a moment with triumph. "I knew it," she said. "Whatever else you might say, whatever lies you tell, you hate our kind. Don't you? — Cassandra Clare

The Goddess's ways are not always clear.
No, but they are always interesting. — P.C. Cast

Don't try to fit in; try to change. — Debasish Mridha

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love. — Princess Diana

There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.
Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time. — Cecilia Llompart

I want to be taken to a madhouse," said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. "I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came." "Why?" asked the unknown. "Because I want a little sane and wholesome society," answered Turnbull. — G.K. Chesterton

I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do. — Nicholas II Of Russia

So, once again, back to the question - just what IS power?
Is it perhaps no more than a deadly mutation of ambition, one that may or may not translate into social activity? Any fool, any moron, any psychopath can aspire to the seizure and exercise of power, and of course the more psychopathic, the more efficient: Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Sergeant Doe and the latest in the line of the unconscionably driven, our own lately departed General Sanni Abacha - all have proved that power, as long as you are sufficiently ruthless, amoral and manipulative, is within the grasp of even the mentally deficient. — Wole Soyinka