Nobuaki Kakuda Quotes & Sayings

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient — Barack Obama

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay. — Kathleen Norris

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. — William J. Brennan Jr.

You can be quite sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their ties with them, immediately and to the same extent, also lose the faith of their fathers, and either become atheists or indifferent. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When adversity hits, go out and learn something. — Julie Andrews

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated. — Albert Camus

The world had paid so little attention to him that he supposed he was dead.
He hoped he was dead. — Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time. — Shannon Miller

I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one of the best parts about living in New York City. — Raquel Zimmermann

I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever. — Ashley Purdy