Otokomae Quotes & Sayings

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn't know how to handle themselves in battle. — Orson Scott Card

It wasn't romantic. It wasn't flowery. But it also wasn't lies. It was just us. — T.M. Frazier

Some moments are beyond imagination. — Stephen King

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on
that is, badly. — George Orwell

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them. — Antonia Fraser

And though it seemed odd that she still didn't know his name, something kept her from asking. Those two little words, she knew, would inevitably set off a chain reaction: first Google, then Facebook, then Twitter, and on and on, mining the twists and turns of the internet until all the mystery had been wrung out of the thing. — Jennifer E. Smith

O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, even grief is a comfort to you, even sadness suits your looks, you are self-assured and bold, you say: 'Look, I'm the only one alive!' while the very days of your life run away and vanish without a trace and without number and everything in you disappears like wax, like snow in the hear of the sun... And perhaps the entire et of your charm consists not in the possibility of doing everything, but in the possibility of thinking perhaps it consists precisely in the fact that you want only to scatter on the wind energies that you wouldn't know how to use for anything else, perhaps it consists in the fact that each one of us seriously regards himself as a spendthrift and seriously considers that he has the right to say: 'Oh, the things I could have done if only I hadn't wasted my time! — Ivan Turgenev

So, I just want to say, I love you, Declan Tyler, and when we can, I can't wait to destroy the sanctity of marriage with you. — Sean Kennedy

I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral. — Meg Cabot

In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth. — Robert Coover