Takoi Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen it, the distanced between Marx's predicted communist society and the form taken by 'communism' in the twentieth century may in the end be traceable to Marx's misconception of the flexibility of human nature. — Peter Singer

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. — Corazon Aquino

Looking back on that time it seems to me that such rapture over Tarkovsky by an audience most of whom would not have known how to spell his name, and who would under normal circumstances have ignored or even disliked his work, arose from our intense sensory deprivation. We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There was a sense of wonder at being in a public place for the first time in years without fear or anger, being in a place with a crowd of strangers that was not a demonstration, a protest rally, a breadline or a public execution. — Azar Nafisi

While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the Nation's fundamental law in 1791, what the Framers understood then remains true today - that the task of combating crime and convicting the guilty will in every era seem of such critical and pressing concern that we may be lured by the temptations of expediency into forsaking our commitment to protecting individual liberty and privacy. — William J. Brennan

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots. — Wynonna Judd

Love gets straight to the heart of what's worthwhile in life. — M.K. Meredith

Fathers and sons and brothers, all of us tall and strong and failing. But all of us trying. — Sam Lansky

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way ... I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to ... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful ... We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose. — Alice Walker

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength. — Richard Kalvar

It was six of a half and one dozen of the other. — Danny Higginbotham

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs. — Barack Obama

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression ... So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving. — Agatha Christie

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he? — Emily Dickinson