Reischauer Quotes & Sayings

Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West
between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force. — Edwin O. Reischauer

I love you Daddy.
How hard was that to say Why hadn't she said it before Because she wasn't sure she meant it or was she afraid it would be one-sided — Susan Wiggs

There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing. — Robert Reischauer

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies. — Noah Baumbach

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. — Greg Anderson

Every generation has its defining challenge. Ours is the systematic annihilation of the biblical family."
~ Doug Phillips — Anna Sofia Botkin

Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules). — Robert Reischauer

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country. — Edwin O. Reischauer

We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt. — Robert Reischauer

The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it. — Edwin O. Reischauer

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too? — Emily Dickinson

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. — Charlie Sheen

They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems. — Robert Reischauer

I got you," he whispered, hugging her tight wile rocking her side to side a little. "I got you, I'll help you baby. You're not dirty, you're so fucking beautiful. I'll fix it, you'll see. — Lucian Bane

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. — Rob Lowe