Takeshis Castle Quotes & Sayings

He cares not what he puts into the press, when he would put us two: I had rather be a giantess and lie under Mount Pelion. — William Shakespeare

Every country has a dark side of their history. — Miyavi

Whoever is not tied to possessions, clinging neither to body nor mind, is never in bondage. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on. — Gloria Gaither

Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They'll give up dreams for that. — Josephine Humphreys

What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life. — Robert Harris

Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded. — Nathan Myhrvold

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. — Thomas Hartwell Horne

And from the perspective of those in need, that extra quarter of a million bucks your material person spent on the prestige addition for his house looks like an awful lot of lifesaving food and medicine that could have existed if the jerk with the big house in the suburbs hadn't blown it all to artificially inflate his sociogeographic penis. — Jim Butcher

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. — Claude Adrien Helvetius