Nogami Izumi Quotes & Sayings

Only those who recognize the value of war and exercise it have any degree of self-determination. — Frank Herbert

Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way. — John C. Maxwell

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation. — Frederick Lenz

Christian faith is not (not always? not usually?) a call to caution and moderation. — William C. Placher

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal. — Daniel Snyder

High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates. — Michael Powers

To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own. — Maggie Nelson

pain can work form the outside in. — Jack Ketchum

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. — James Payn

Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your life, does the decision to do so change the shape of the day? One of Doris Lessing's days in The Golden Notebook is fifty-four pages long. It's complete; the rest are summaries - the "impression" of a day foisted artfully upon the reader by providing a few details. Fiction is made this way - as lineal perspective gives the illusion of three dimensions in drawing. But does the selection of a day - that you begin by knowing you must remember and observe - really affect it? Do you change the balance, distort the truth? The period itself, its choice and selection, does that not in itself constitute a kind of misconstruction, and the rest follow subconsciously? — Kate Millett