Soseki Kokoro Quotes & Sayings

The home team: my dearest, most patient, most beloved husband, Rich, who does everything so that I can do — Roxanne St. Claire

According to the date on Van's driver's license, he was seventeen. Somehow he'd looked a lot older when he'd been trying to cut my head off. — Helen Keeble

Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason - or at least they appeal to certain types of people. Just like you're attracted to Soseki's The Miner. There's something in it that draws you in, more than more fully realized novels like Kokoro or Sanshiro. You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart - or maybe we should say the work discovers you. Schubert's Sonata in D Major is sort of the same thing. — Haruki Murakami

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours. — Soseki Natsume

Sean was stung. "I do not fuck everything that has a pulse," he said haughtily. "I have my standards. I limit myself to endoskeletal organisms. I always go for vertebrates. And I dont't do reptiles. Ever. — Shannon McKenna

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. — Fran Lebowitz

The general will be joining us, shortly.
[..] A Revision officer dropping the brother in front of a rank was the most threatening thing Sergei had heard in a long time. He stared at Nikishin, tried to read his features, but that was entirely impossible. Never before had Nikishin appeared more the arm of the law. — Aleksandr Voinov

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up — Heather Brewer

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected ... Fortunately I never lost the elections. — Sharad Pawar

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian. — David Steinberg

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power. — John Mearsheimer

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. — Anonymous

A study by the University of Zurich demonstrates a link between attractiveness and endurance performance, showing that successful Tour de France cyclists are judged as more attractive. — Anonymous

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people. — Eunice Parisi-Carew

The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet. — Gustavo Gutierrez