Yoshihito Onda Quotes & Sayings

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art
novels, poems, plays, paintings or films
can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. — Alain De Botton

Our vulnerability [to ressentiment], is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them. — Zygmunt Bauman

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here. — Edward Said

Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care. — Vladimir Nabokov

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. — James E. Burke

I don't intend on keeping her anywhere ... Aside from my bed, she's free to come and go as she pleases. — Tarryn Fisher

I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library. — Rick Riordan

I'm scared of flying. And dying." There. She'd said it, and it was out there. Now when Nicole screamed a lot and peed her pants, it wouldn't be so awkward because she'd warned everyone. — T.S. Joyce

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring. — G-Eazy

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles. — Haruki Murakami

It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became. — Candace Bushnell

There's a reason why your toes are forward and your heels backward.
It means, step on your past with your heels and approach your furute with your toes. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within. — Ralph Waldo Emerson