Shinai Kendo Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability — Peter De Vries

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. — E. M. Forster

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. — Richard Dawkins

Perhaps it's not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists. — Douglas Preston

Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind. — Keira D. Skye

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started. — Pete Hamill

These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

Just like in our kendo matches, where we only felt briefly safe with our shinai thrust between us, keeping each other at arm's distance was the only way to trust each other. That way, no one would lunge, and either of us could retreat.
We lived in parallel worlds, somehow held together by the axis of each other. — Amanda Sun

Abandoned babies are unfortunate unwanted results of a once urgent desire to have an orgasm — David Cross

ORIGEN. For if in an earthly kingdom they are thought to be in honour who sit with the king, no wonder if a woman with womanish simplicity or want of experience conceived that she might ask such things, and that the brethren themselves being not perfect, and having no more lofty thoughts concerning Christ's kingdom, conceived such things concerning those who shall sit with Jesus. — Thomas Aquinas