Taketomi Hotel Quotes & Sayings

Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment. — Cathy Lamb

After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat the experience. — James C. Scott

It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. — Neal Shusterman

I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry. — Ian Rankin

Only a god can save us. — Martin Heidegger

Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The Romans were Italian - which means they were Europeans, which means they were white - and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country. — Jeremiah Wright

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do. — Imelda May

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. — Seneca The Younger

joining this caravan may have been my decision, but where it goes is going to be a mystery to me. Nearby — Paulo Coelho

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step. — Neale Donald Walsch

I can assure you, nothing in my performance will be deflated — Katy Perry

The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected. — Andy Murray

You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately - the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms, blandly filled with excrement and heat? To what purpose? — David Foster Wallace

There's no use being satisfied when things
are done wrongly. I want perfection. — Bill Nichols