Story Of Saiunkoku Quotes & Sayings

It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome ... was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her. — George Q. Cannon

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist. — Thomas Chalmers

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers]
A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times - you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. — Jack London

They stood among their horses in the squalid little alameda while the wind ransacked the trees and the birds nesting in the gray twilight cried out and clutched the limbs and the snow swirled and blew across the little square and shrouded the shapes of the mud buildings beyond and made mute the cries of the vendors who'd followed them. — Cormac McCarthy

Your work, coming from a fluid source, can be traced to the naked song of your youth. You spoke then of holding hands with God. Remember, through everything, you have always held that hand, grip it hard, Robert, and don't let go.

(letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, 1970) — Patti Smith

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. — M.L. Stedman

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste — John Coltrane

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. — John Steinbeck

No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall. — Jason Giambi

You can't trust us to let you face trouble alone. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful. — Emraan Hashmi

If you are going to have ideas ahead of the times, you will have to get used to living with the fact that most people are going to believe you are wrong. — Bruce Lloyd

Power structures were always fairly easy to figure out if you took a moment to observe the people involved. — Meg Wolitzer

Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again? — Neal Stephenson