Takezo Kensei Quotes & Sayings

The power of kings is transitory, like everything else. Royal glory is difficult to climb, like a bamboo; it is hard to hold, being fidgety like a monkey on a treetop; it is balanced precariously, like drops of water on a lotus-leaf; it is changeable, like the path of the wind; it is undependable, like the friendship of a dishonest man; it is difficult to tame, like a serpent; it glistens only for a moment, like a cloud at sunset; it is fragile, like bubbles on the surface of a river; it is elusive, like the treasure attained in a dream. Remember all this, and enjoy your kingdom modestly. — V.S. Narvane

You married me ... but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. — Wallace Stegner

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. — Rudolf Arnheim

All guys involved in high school athletics are more or less the same - former athletes themselves, big guys, maybe played a little college ball at some shitty school in some shitty program, charismatic for teachers, a little goofy and dim, their lives outside of their sport's season barely worth living, their once kinda hot wives having grown old-looking and probably fat. They were like my seventh-grade coach, except maybe with five or so more I.Q. points. Anyway, I liked them well enough. — A.D. Aliwat

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. — Lionel Blue

Christianity is, simply, good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which the world is a different place — N. T. Wright

there is nothing real or true that is timeless — Lee Smolin

We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. — John F. Kerry

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable. — Paramahansa Yogananda

All things come to those who lurk. Skulking is also an option. — Alex Gabriel

Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them. — Jeffrey Fry

There's so much misinformation about dissociative disorder treatment out in the world, and especially on the internet. — Richard A Chefetz