Tomoshima Quotes & Sayings

God, Benny, don't blow your nose like that in the church. You'd lift half the congregation out of their seats," Patsy warned. — Maeve Binchy

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church, — Sidney Sheldon

We do not feel that ordinarily, do we? What we feel, instead, is an identification of ourselves with our ideas of ourselves - I would rather say, with our image of ourselves. That is the person, or the ego. You play a role; you identify with that role. I play a role called Alan Watts. And I know very well that it is a big act. I can play some other roles besides Alan Watts if necessary, but I find this one is best for making a living. But I assure you that is a mask and I do not take it seriously. The idea of my being a kind of guru, or savior of the world just breaks me up, because I know me. Besides, it is very difficult to be holy, in the ordinary sense. — Alan W. Watts

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust. — Rachel Hartman

One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The days slip into weeks, the weeks slip into months and the months slip into years. Pretty soon it's all over and you are left with nothing more than a heart filled with regret over a life half lived. — Robin S. Sharma

As an American I wanted to explore ... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? — Jodi Picoult

The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down. — Hilaire Belloc

Comics are like a Rorschach test; everyone has a different opinion on what they are and can be. — Michael Sacal

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. — Booker T. Washington

How is your writing going, Michael?"
"Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan. — Frederic Raphael

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too. — Bruce Campbell

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good. — Ann H. Gabhart