Scabbards Kiku Quotes & Sayings

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. — Michel Foucault

As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway. — Megan Whalen Turner

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state. — Gustav Radbruch

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. — Gloria Steinem

Missing Alina was worse than a terminal illness. At least when you were terminal you knew the pain was going to end eventually. But there was no light at the end of my tunnel. Grief was going to devour me, day into night, night into day, and although I might feel like I was dying from it, might even wish I was, I never would. I was going to have to walk around with a hole in my heart forever. I was going to hurt for my sister until the day I died. If you don't know what I mean or you think I'm being melodramatic, then you've never really loved anyone. — Karen Marie Moning

I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework. — Louise Rennison

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. — Alva Myrdal

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling. — Neil Oliver

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef. — Nathan Myhrvold

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. — Margaret Atwood

Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you? — Katie McGarry

To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse. — Clifford Whittingham Beers

A WEEK BEFORE commencement, at which Stoner was to receive his doctorate, Archer Sloane offered him a full-time instructorship at the University. — John Edward Williams

Absent-mindedly she stroked her belly, trying not to imagine that it already felt a little rounder. — Michelle Duffy

It is amazing how much you can see in other people - the good and the bad, we won't even talk about the ugly - if you just shut up and watch them. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted