Tsubame Gaeshi Quotes & Sayings

Let us say, as a thought experiment, that someone in a country equipped with doomsday weapons fears attack from another country and strikes preemptively. There would be thousands of years of cultural history and some few decades of personal history behind the decision. Madman though he might be, he would have brought the species to a culmination that humankind had been preparing for eons. To say that a spasm of activity in a region of his brain was crucial to the event would be utterly trivial. — Marilynne Robinson

The best doctors are the ones that can get inside your head and fix something without making a hole. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too — Lewis Carroll

Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity. — Khalil Gibran

[Rakel] It feels a bit like jumping out of a burning house. Falling is better than burning.
[Harry] At least until you land.
[Rakel] I've come to realize that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being. — Jo Nesbo

People who like you only for what you can give them are rarely steadfast friends, and not often worth what you sacrifice to keep them. — Sarah Fine

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. — Robert Waterman McChesney

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain. — Jon Foreman

The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet. — Gump Worsley

Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people. — Michael N. Nagler

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity. — Samuel Johnson

Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed animal or a calendar or a movie. — Lois Lowry