Tenryu Class Quotes & Sayings

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. — Jonathan Swift

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. — Mary McCarthy

He had known since the age of nine that essentially he was alone and that he would always be alone, a conclusion more common to the forties.
Now, in his forties, he was seized by a fantasy life with the brilliance and freshness and immediacy of childhood. It took him a step beyond alone.
At a time when other men first see and fear their isolation, Dolarhyde's became understandable to him: he was alone because he was unique. With the fervor of conversion he saw that if he worked at it, if he followed the true urges he had kept down for so long, cultivated them as the inspirations they truly were, he could become. — Thomas Harris

Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. — Wilfred Owen

Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don't have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration. — John Green

The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. — Andy Rooney

Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes. — Rick Riordan

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain. — Joshua Bloch

Change your stress, before it changes you! Restore your Freedom to Choose! — Richard D. Murphy

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral. — Herman Melville

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. — Umberto Eco

Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of stoneware pots. — Stephen R. Donaldson