Nihonjin Quotes & Sayings

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work. — Robert Frost

The strong sometimes gave birth to the weak, or the other way around — V.E Schwab

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency. — Ulysses S. Grant

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. — William Hazlitt

Let them think you a demon or a god," she said. "Let them fear you. It does not
matter."
"It matters a great deal to me," he snapped. — Victoria Schwab

Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing ... you're never going to hit any! — Taylor Hicks

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion. — Kay Arthur

She merely looked at her distantly, as one does at someone who has come too close. — Paulo Coelho

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional. — Chuck Klosterman

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school. — Billy Collins

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing
I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem. — Natasha Trethewey

I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds ... One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires. — James Hillman