Otonashi Haruna Quotes & Sayings

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person, - Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

The examination combines the techniques of an observing hierarchy and those of a normalizing judgement. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to qualify, to classify and to punish. It establishes over individuals a visibility through which one differentiates them and judges them. That is why, in all the mechanisms of discipline, the examination is highly ritualized. In it are combined the ceremony of power and the form of the experiment, the deployment of force and the establishment of truth. At the heart of the procedures of discipline, it manifests the subjection of those who are perceived as objects and the objectification of those who are subjected. The superimposition of the power relations and knowledge relations assumes in the examination all its visible brilliance. — Michel Foucault

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. — John Abizaid

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us. — Agatha Christie

When the heart is pierced, there is pain, yes, but also an invitation to a greater becoming. — Marianne Williamson

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the
capacity to listen. — Carolyn Baker

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.
He smiled and said, 'By loving you. — Kamand Kojouri

Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said. — Lev Artsimovich