Silence By Shusaku Endo Quotes & Sayings

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. — Anton Chekhov

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, 'Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.' — Zach Galifianakis

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues. — Zachary Cole Smith

If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. — Mary Renault

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. — Joan Didion

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea ... what abortion is to sperm. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What do I want to say? I myself do not quite understand. Only that today, when for the glory of God Mokichi and Ichizo moaned, suffered and died, I cannot bear the monotonous sound of the dark sea gnawing at the shore. Behind the depressing silence of this sea, the silence of God....the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent. — Shusaku Endo

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm hitting the shower," Braeden said and slammed his locker shut.
"Hey," I said and caught him by the shoulder.
He glanced around at me. "You wanna tell me why Rimmel called you before the game?"
Braeden spun. "Did you go through my phone?"
"Did you lie to me about my girl?" I countered.
He wiped a hand over his face. "Fucking A. Don't put me in the middle, Rome."
"You're my best friend, asshole. There is no middle. It's my side."
"Hey now," he said. "Sisters before misters and all that."
"What the fuck does that even mean?" I drawled, amused.
"It means I've taken her on as my little sister. You're her mister. I'm officially in neutral territory. — Cambria Hebert

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center. — Mike White

Justice is the sum of all moral duty. — William Godwin

I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering. — Shusaku Endo