Kiyoaki Quotes

#1. All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko's public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark to contend with. And however acute his private agony, it was, after all, the torment of a coward.

Yukio Mishima

#2. More than anything else, Kiyoaki thought, more than Princess Chan, the emerald ring, their friends, their school, perhaps what the princes had needed had been sunshine. It seemed that summer had the power to heal all frustrations, soothe every grief, restore their lost happiness.

Yukio Mishima

#3. Those who lack imagination have no choice but to base their conclusions on the reality they see around them. But on the other hand, those who are imaginative have a tendency to build fortified castles they have designed themselves, and to seal off every window. And so it was with Kiyoaki.

Yukio Mishima

#4. Dragon form is generally reserved for mating and fighting. We found over the years that it was simply easier to blend in - physically speaking - if we resembled those around us. Do you wish to mate with me?

Katie MacAlister

#5. When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

Bruce Wilkinson

#6. The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

#7. I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.

M.M. Kaye

#8. America took his face in her hands and smiled. You're an arrogant ass, but I still love you.

Jamie McGuire

#9. There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Odell Shepard

#10. There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.

Werner Erhard

#11. The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.

Richard Branson