Hakana Dining Quotes

#1. I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.

J. Budziszewski

#2. I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

Samantha Shannon

#3. Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda," he told the Times. "I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the other place, let's face it.

Keith Richards

#4. Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.

Deborah Day

#6. If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

Stephen Levine

#7. The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Pearl S. Buck

#8. Belief and seeing are both often wrong,

Robert McNamara

#9. I'm merely exploring souls & cities
From the vantage point
Of my ivory tower built,
Built with the assistance
of Opium
That's enough, isnt it?

Jack Kerouac

#10. Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Helen Dunmore

#11. They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.

George W. Bush