Shochikubai Quotes & Sayings

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood. — Jean De La Bruyere

What does it matter?" I shrugged. "It's interesting and anything thats interesting is worth learning. — Amanda Lance

for the first time in a popular novel I was reading about wrongdoing by the then-sacred institution, the FBI. I was reading open criticism and accusation of J. Edgar Hoover himself. I was reading it not from the typewriter of a young radical but from that of an old novelist. — Rex Stout

It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think the emerald is more beautiful than any of them. — George Eliot

In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety. — Pauline Kael