Shintani Quotes & Sayings

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end. — Felix Frankfurter

I am still working on patter and presentation. — Paul Daniels

Oh, I love you, June, I really do. It's just that you sounded so ... twat-ish just then. — Red Tash

What's wrong
with you?"
"I don't know. I probably got alien cooties. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. — Mary Shelley

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy. — Rod Stewart

A poet must sing for his own people. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

But as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction. — Clive Barker

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. — Joe Dunthorne

The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves. He is reducing and even eliminating the need for medication, rated by The Journal of the American Medical Association as the fourth leading cause of death in people with diabetes. This well-documented book is all the more important and a better alternative. — Terry Shintani

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb

Two hundred and fifty years is a long time ... Do you have any concept of what happens to emotional bonds over such a period? .... No. Your life experience cannot possibly encompass what it is to love the same person for two hundred and fifty years. In the end, if you endure, if you beat the traps of boredom and complacency, in the end what you are left with is not love. It is almost veneration. How then to match that respect, that veneration with the sordid desires of whatever flesh you are wearing at the time? I tell you, you cannot."
- Laurens Bancroft, "the client — Richard K. Morgan

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now. — Eckhart Tolle

School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children. — Daniel Goleman