Ryuzaburo Otomo Quotes & Sayings

It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate with his king's enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Fear in the biblical sense ... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people. — Edward T. Welch

Ye gods and fishes, lad, every town has its resident witch. Every town hides some old Greek pagan priest, some Roman worshipper of tiny gods who ran up the roads, hid in culverts, sank in caves to escape the Christians! In every tiny village, boy, in every scrubby farm the old religions hide out ... all the little lollygaggin' cults, all flavors and types, scramble to survive. See how they run, boys! — Ray Bradbury

My prophecy is but half his journey yet,
For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,
Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
Must kiss their own feet. — William Shakespeare

The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end. — Peter Dickinson

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion. — Gerhard Schroder

We took our eye off the ball as a company. — William Clay Ford Jr.

One evening, after he'd read a piece about yet another savagery in Bosnia, I saw there were tears in his eyes. 'Don't it ever stop?' he said. 'I can mind Father telling that there'd be no more wars, not after his one. It shames me. It shames all of us. What's the good in reading, if that's all there is to read about? — Michael Morpurgo

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable? — Cinda Williams Chima

To exaggerate is to paint a rainbow with additional colors. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder. — Zell Miller