Omotenashi Quotes & Sayings

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. — Akira Kurosawa

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone. — Willa Cather

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. — Edith Evans

Fortune's Malice. Mad Fortune sweeps along in wanton pride, Uncertain as Euripus' surging tide; Now tramples mighty kings beneath her feet; Now sets the conquered in the victor's seat. She heedeth not the wail of hapless woe, But mocks the griefs that from her mischief flow. Such is her sport; so proveth she her power; And great the marvel, when in one brief hour She shows her darling lifted high in bliss, Then headlong plunged in misery's abyss. — Boethius

I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes.
He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much."
This time, she didn't hit him. — Connie Brockway

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people. — Rob Bell

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community. — Queen Elizabeth II

I moaned and he growled in response. — Aileen Erin

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.'
'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic. — Sarah Dessen

I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

Let principles make decisions. — Jack Hyles

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. — Robert Fortune

It unscrews the other way. — J.K. Rowling

It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. — John Derbyshire