Kankichi Ryotsu Quotes

#1. The town in which ... I had spent my youth ... had nothing to give me but memories.

Hermann Hesse

#2. This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a band but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot

#3. In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.

Earl Nightingale

#4. For me, the sea has always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it is told and never revealing those secrets; always giving the best advice - its meaningful noises can be interpreted any way you choose.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#5. There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.

Ramez Naam

#7. Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

George William Russell

#8. I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again

Mikhail Lermontov

#9. With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

Andre Gide

#10. And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

Gerald R. Ford

#12. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

William Shakespeare

#13. Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

Aaron Sorkin

#14. Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.

Robin Sharma

#15. There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Alexander Pope