Tachibana Kanade Quotes & Sayings

No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely. — Virginia Woolf

I like to challenge myself and I like to try new things. — Jessica Lucas

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple. — Swami Vivekananda

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. — Ellis Peters

Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their discernment. — Bill Johnson

I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic. — Eliot Spitzer

We have it in us to be splendid. — Maya Angelou

Like the first day of any new thing, it has been a long one, and he's glad to see it end. — Blake Crouch

Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he had a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it. — Herman Melville

Destiny has more than one road. — Nora Roberts

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. — Francis Bacon

By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones. — Christina Dodd

Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water. — W. Somerset Maugham

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. — Georg Buchner

Poor men ... always make love better than those who are rich, because, having less to care about, and not being puffed up with their own consequence, they are not so selfish and think much more of the lady than of themselves. — Frederick Marryat