Okumura Masanobu Quotes & Sayings

Joining the church felt like joining a secret club; and you learned the rules after you joined. The first rule of the church was: Never question what it is that you have joined. — Stephen White

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. — Allen Boyd

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade. — Russell Baker

Perfectionism is the death of a great room. — Anne McDonald

He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting, and obsessively re-polishing lines and paragraphs with a jeweler's precision.
But it was not good enough.
He wanted the pages to sing with ideas that had once seemed so important to him, all and everything he knew, and yet they did not, and no amount of diligence was able to bring them to life. The story came to be a burden and weighed more heavily in his hands each time he lifted it out of the drawer. After a few weeks he was reluctant to open the desk at all.
("Talking In The Dark") — Dennis Etchison

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work. — Tony McCoy

One word of sympathy can heal the thousand wounds of heart and soul. — Anonymous

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance. — David Maister