Teruko Nimura Quotes & Sayings

Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began. — Emma Goldman

the practice blade back and forth. "I was making sure you were paying — Pierce Brown

At the exit, they sell home-made soap with the evil eye attached, to protect yourself from people who'd wish you ill. I buy one, wondering, How do you hang it inside yourself? — Emma Forrest

Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution. — Dag Hammarskjold

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders. — Gertrude Bell

You gotta be both flexible and persistent. — Reid Hoffman

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations. — Santosh Kalwar

I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium. — John Niven

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves. — William J. Mann

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry. — Georg Brandes

Failure is not an option. It's a requirement. — Michael J. Scott

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. — Julia Cameron

'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes. — Grace Paley

[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine what could be accomplished if the human race would only shed its humanity. — Max Brooks

A lady is never truly embarrassed. And if she is, a lady is never gauche enough to leave survivors. — Seanan McGuire