Ancient Japanese Sayings

#1. For example, the ancient Japanese had onna-zumo (women's wrestling), but as the sports historian Allen Guttmann writes, "The debased motivation for this activity is suggested by the names of the wrestlers: 'Big Boobs,' 'Deep Crevice,' and 'Holder of the Balls.

Jonathan Gottschall

#2. The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

Noam Chomsky

#3. The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#4. I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.

Judith Miller

#5. The radiation was worse by far. I had bandages all over my head. I looked like a mummy. On the side of my head and neck and down to my collarbone, I had second-degree burns. My skin blistered and peeled before it grew back. That was the worst part of it.

Bob McNair

#6. The ultimate test of a great team is results. And considering that tens of thousands of people escaped from the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., there can be no doubt that the teams who risked, and lost, their lives to save them were extraordinary.

Patrick Lencioni

#7. Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Ronald Reagan

#8. The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.

Kakuzo Okakura

#9. Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.

Barack Obama

#10. Every act of love is a dagger in the heart of ISIS. May they bleed to death.

Johnnie Moore

#11. Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#12. Russian, Japanese and Korean scientists has recently mapped the genome of ancient mammoths,

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

Artie Shaw

#14. It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out.

Solange Nicole