Mikage Sakata Quotes & Sayings

What someone's lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone's self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter. — Tim Kreider

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world. — Immanuel Wallerstein

People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment. — Sunday Adelaja

We were taught not to offer or invite aid, because, like it or not, helping is a messy, confused proposition; sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong, and sometimes you have no choice but to trust that the man holding your tire iron, cussing at your old lug nuts, is a deeply kind human after all. — Dee Williams

I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good. — Christina Aguilera

You'll shoot the moon ... put out the sun ... when you love someone. — Bryan Adams

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland

And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.
... My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter. — Lisa Genova

The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism? — V. P. Singh

It is usually a mistake to believe that any opinion or situation is objectively good or bad, since everything depends on the perspective of the viewer. — Lama Surya Das

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise. — George Pelecanos

I like a good pompadour. — Brian Setzer

We weren't violent then. There is a difference between paint and not. — Darin Bradley

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract. — H.G.Wells