Ryuken Ishida Quotes & Sayings

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. — Allan Bloom

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When you marry someone, you marry their entire family. — Kevin Jonas

Know everything you can about what you're doing — Fred Trump

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive. — Marilyn Vos Savant

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time. — Rebecca Hall

Freud suggested that, in normal mourning, one internalizes the dead. The dead are fully assimilated into the living, a process he called introjection. — Teju Cole

The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands. — Virginia Woolf

People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat. — Frederick Lenz

I don't like to sit still. — Philip Rivers

King consistently argued that rich Western nations had moral and political responsibilities to redress global poverty, something they would never do without world disarmament. — Thomas F. Jackson

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work. — Iain Duncan Smith

Winning isn't the end of the world — David Pleat

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. — Dorothy Hamill

Next time, mind the time! So many people waste their time as if they are so sure of the next time, but no one is all that very sure, with all certainty, of what is in next time! Next time, mind the time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah