Takemoto Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity. — Michael Cunningham

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods. — Bhagat Singh

[Fascism is] psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life ... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them, "I offer you struggle, danger, and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet ... We ought not to underrate its emotional appeal. — George Orwell

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort. — Gerald Celente

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces. — Shawn Johnson

Remember, marriage is not a contractual arrangement. True love doesn't say, "Make me feel this way if you want me to stay." That's not love. Instead, true love says in commitment, "I'm giving myself to you regardless. — Matt Chandler

Every birdcage deserves to be annihilated because every bird deserves to be free! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Praxis is about applying one's knowledge to challenge oppressive systems and unequal traditions. It is related to the well-known phrase "the personal is political" espoused by many advocates of the second-wave women's movement. — Michele Tracy Berger

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. — Dana Stabenow

You weren't that good when you fought Govart.'
'When I fought Govart,' said Damen, 'I had my lungs full of chalis.'
Another slow nod.
'I'm not sure how it is in Akielos,' said Jord, 'but... you shouldn't take that stuff before a fight. Slows your reflexes. Saps your strength. Just some friendly advice.'
'Thank you,' said Damen, after a long, drawn out moment had passed. — C.S. Pacat

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny. — Cameron Diaz

It's like if I blamed my Aunt Helen, I would have to blame her dad for hitting her, and the friend of the family that fooled around with her when she was little. And the person that fooled around with him. And God for not stopping this and things that much worse. And I did do that for a while, but then I just couldn't anymore. Because it wasn't going anywhere. Because it wasn't the point. — Stephen Chbosky

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke

He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life. — Veronica Roth