Overstatements With Ugly Quotes & Sayings

Everything I do, I choose very, very carefully, because if I don't like it, I can't make you like it. — Carmen McRae

The principle of avoiding conflict and never opposing an aggressor's strength head-on is the essence of aikido. We apply the same principle to problems that arise in life. The skilled aikidoist is as elusive as the truth of Zen; he makes himself into a koan - a puzzle which slips away the more one tries to solve it. He is like water in that he falls through the fingers of those who try to clutch him. Water does not hesitate before it yields, for the moment the fingers begin to close it moves away, not of its own strength, but by using the pressure applied to it. It is for this reason, perhaps, that one of the symbols for aikido is water. — Joe Hyams

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I — Henry David Thoreau

Death is not enough for such men. We must add mechanics — Andrei Codrescu

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. — Carl Sagan