Touhou Quotes & Sayings

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. — Ulysses S. Grant

By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in the sparkling water had stained its whole bed a bright yellow. Green leaves, of such a sour brightness as almost poisoned to behold, floated on the surface of the rush-girdled pools. Weeds like tempting veils of mossy velvet grew beneath in vivid contrast with the soil. Alders and willows hung over the margin. From where we stood a half-submerged path of rough stones, threaded by deep swift channels, crossed to the very centre.
("The Basilisk") — R. Murray Gilchrist

Had we but world enough, and time — Andrew Marvell

I would become anyone, anything for you. I would lie, steal, beg, kill for you. I'm not sorry for what I did in the past few months. My life would have been nothing without them. — Lisa Kleypas

If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me. — John F. Kerry

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks. — Quentin Tarantino

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight. — Gregg Allman

In John's Gospel chapter 11, after Lazarus has died, he comes to be with Martha and Mary, the sisters. Martha says, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died," and Jesus rebukes her. Then Mary comes up and says, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died," and Jesus just weeps with her. Same words - by no means the same response. Why? Because Jesus always gives you what you need, and he knows better than you what that is. He's the Wonderful Counselor. — Timothy Keller

We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul. — G.K. Chesterton

Because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too
a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing. — Angela Lansbury