Seinosuke Mugen Quotes & Sayings

Each time I arrived in a new city, I'd get lost in the streets and photograph everything that looked interesting, taking nearly a thousand photographs every day. After each day of shooting, I'd select 30 or 40 of my favorite photographs and post them on Facebook. I named the albums after my first impression of each city. — Brandon Stanton

I slid my hand over his heart.
"I'm clawing my way in there deep."
"I can feel it, Scarlett. Make it hurt. — Cat Porter

The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on. — David J. Delaney

If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it. — Karen Swallow Prior

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all. — William Sansom

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark. — Tim Butcher

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality. — Swami Vivekananda

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. — Zhuangzi

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs. — Alan Alda

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Kurt Vonnegut wasn't a chatty guy, but when he spoke, it was always clear and very funny, in the way that he wrote, in a very specific kind of combination of word groupings and expressions that lived somewhere else. — Susan Sarandon

The sense that everything is poetical is a thing solid and absolute; it is not a mere matter of phraseology or persuasion. It is not merely true, it is ascertainable. — G.K. Chesterton

And we forget because we must and not because we will. — Matthew Arnold

[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades ... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet — George Orwell