Norikazu Suzuki Quotes & Sayings

All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power. — Albert Jay Nock

The French don't snack. They will tear off the endo of a fres baguette (which, if it's warm, it's practically impossible to resist) and eat it as they leave the boulangerie. And that's usually all you will see being consumed on the street. Compare that with the public eating and drinking that goes on in America: pizza, hot dogs, nachos, tacos, heroes, potato chips, sandwiches, jerricans of coffee, half-gallon buckets of Coke (Diet, of cours) and heaven knows what else being demolished on the hoof, often on the way to the aerobic class. — Peter Mayle

I'm just trying not to have a Tom Cruise moment
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He was having a very Tom Cruise moment — Jamie McGuire

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No one is depressed when they're being chased by a bear. — Adam Carolla

A brother with small earnings may ask,'Should I also give? My earning are already so small that my family can barely make ends meet.' My reply is, 'Have you ever considered that the very reason your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only use it to increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them. — George Muller

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. — Alexander Alekhine

The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start. — John Nance Garner

There's a reason straight men call us 'cocksuckers'. I've just never understood why it's considered an insult. — B. Snow

Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help you to listen to silence, where all notes disappear, where only gaps remain. One note comes, disappears, and another has not come, and there is a gap. In that gap meditation flows in you. — Rajneesh

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint ... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case. — Etel Adnan

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great. — Graeme Base

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well. — Pat Nixon

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time — John Green