Takasubos Disease Quotes & Sayings

In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment? — Sun Tzu

How do you know, when you think blue - when you say blue - that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else?

You cannot get a grip on blue.

Blue is the sky, the sea, a god's eye, a devil's tail, a birth, a strangulation, a virgin's cloak, a monkey's ass. It's a butterfly, a bird, a spicy joke, the saddest song, the brightest day.

Blue is sly, slick, it slides into the room sideways, a slippery trickster.

This is a story about the color blue, and like blue, there's nothing true about it. Blue is beauty, not truth. 'True blue' is a ruse, a rhyme; it's there, then it's not. Blue is a deeply sneaky color. — Christopher Moore

There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao. — Laozi

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties. — Peter MacKay

Confidence, just like success, is self made. — Sergey Shcherbatyuk

But my whole body is one pain. I cannot stand on my legs anymore. I stagger. I fall back on my bed. My eyes close and fill with smarting tears. I want to be crucified on the wall, but I cannot. My body becomes heavier and heavier and filled with sharper pain. My flesh is enraged against me.
I hear voices through the wall. The next room vibrates with a distant sound, a mist of sound which scarcely comes through the wall.
I shall not be able to listen anymore, or look into the room, or hear anything distinctly. And I, who have not cried since my childhood, I cry now like a child because of all that I shall never have. I cry over lost beauty and grandeur. I love everything that I should have embraced. — Henri Barbusse

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading. — Charles Barkley

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained. — Arthur Balfour

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding. — Croft M. Pentz

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself. — David Platt

Her skirt it swayed as the guitar played
her mouth it was watery and yet ... — Bob Dylan

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. — Chuck Schumer

Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free. — Kemi Sogunle