Reischauer Japan Quotes & Sayings

It had taught him to love his own beauty. Would it teach him to loathe his own soul? — Oscar Wilde

One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie. — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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 want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something. — Bruce Nauman

Stop trying, & start trusting. — Rick Warren

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann

A life with a worthy purpose is worth living. — Debasish Mridha

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing. — Bill Frisell

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you. — Paulo Coelho

If awareness and conscious thought are seen as a part of life - not its master nor its opponent but an illumination of the developing process within the individual - then our total life can be the unified and unifying experience that is characteristic in nature. — Carl R. Rogers

But we were supposed to be exceptional." "Wakanda is exceptional, Baba. And now, more than ever, we need someone to remind us. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it. — Natalia Makarova