Shirohato Quotes & Sayings

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Oh, God - the lives people try to lead.
Oh, God - what a world they try to lead them in. — Kurt Vonnegut

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.) — Brandon Sanderson

If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it. — Hammurabi

Fitzgerald was a modernist. — Baz Luhrmann

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force. — Winston S. Churchill

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. — Emily Bronte

When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times. — Cheech Marin