Chugoku Bank Quotes

#1. Bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

John Stott

#3. Though Marcus' essay extends over 13 pages of small text, at its core is a very simple premise: Contemporary American fiction has lost its innovative edge and its interest in language as art, and Jonathan Franzen is largely, if not exclusively, to blame.

Jess Row

#4. One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

Bruce Lee

#5. The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

Chiang Kai-shek

#6. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will soon convince themselves that mortals cannot hide any secret.

Sigmund Freud

#7. I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.

Epicurus

#8. You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

Philipp Meyer

#9. Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

Jane Jacobs