Takai Quotes & Sayings

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly. — Neal Shusterman

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits. — Richard Whately

What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret? — Jane Roberts

Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always. — Frederick Lenz

Dianetics, Hayakawa noted, was neither science nor fiction, but something else: "fictional science. — Lawrence Wright

You think being mean is enough. Being mean and being smart is better — Penny Reid

If Catherine would just let go' had been their mantra for so long. Now Mamah understood Catherine's dilemma better. She wouldn't divorce Frank because she feared he wouldn't pay her child support and alimony. And there was revenge to be sure: By refusing to divorce after twenty years of accommodating him, Catherine was squeezing recompense from Frank for a longstanding emotional debt. But that was only part of it. Catherine held on because she still loved him, and remembered what it was like to be loved by him. Nothing else in the world compared to the incandescent joy Frank brought to his best beloved. — Nancy Horan

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces. — Etienne De La Boetie

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. — Joseph Brodsky

You are what you are seen to be. — Erik Spiekermann

There is a popular saying in Japan that goes "Tada yori takai mono wa nai," meaning: "Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge." THE UNSPOKEN WAY, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988 — Robert Greene

...thus our State, which is also yours, will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good. — Plato

Life is worth living because we find the ultimate joy of life through love. — Debasish Mridha

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band. — Fernanda Takai

Men are like that... They remain boys... — Agatha Christie