Takuta Iwai Quotes & Sayings

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour. — H.P. Lovecraft

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. — Philip Levine

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music. — Chico Hamilton

We have everything within us for our greatness and for our destruction. It comes back to what we think about. — Tony Curl

You just haven't found the right girl," Clare said. "She'll come along." "And then she'll make a run for the hills." Cass laughed at her own joke. — Jayde Scott

Normally, I'd lie and connive and do whatever necessary to make you take me into the south."
"But ... "
More tears began to flow. "But that thing ... "
"Thing? What thing?"
"That thing ... in one's head ... that tells you when something would be wrong to do. It won't let me do it."
Feeling a sudden high level of annoyance, Gwenvael carefully asked, "Do you mean your ... conscience?"
Her tears turned into hysterical sobs, and she went down on her side, her head dropping into his lap.
"Dagmar! Everyone has a conscience."
"I don't!"
"Of course you do."
"I'm a politician, Gwenvael! Of course, I don't have a conscience. At least I didn't. Now I'm cursed with one. And it's your fault!"
Somehow he knew that last bit would happen. — G.A. Aiken

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. — Jack Lemmon

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient. — Viktor E. Frankl

I didn't steal it,' I stammered in protest. I had so stolen it. — Sarah Alderson

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it. — Benji Madden

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride. — Russell Kirk

I've tried to maintain a healthy image but not necessarily a size because as women, we're all different sizes. I go for being the healthy size; whatever that is for you. It's important to embrace that and love your body for what it is. Each woman has her own body. — Marisa Miller