Kosaburo Ige Quotes

#1. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:

William Shakespeare

#2. Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

Arthur Desmond

#3. The sun is a thief: she lures the sea
and robs it. The moon is a thief:
he steals his silvery light from the sun.
The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. I said to myself: 'You mean all those people out there that I've been envying because they're not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn't somebody tell me!?' I guess I never asked.

Susan Jeffers

#5. In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

Roger Scruton

#7. It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

Edvard Munch

#8. We are so very 'umble.

Charles Dickens

#9. In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Kirk Douglas

#10. A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Mandela Nelson

#11. They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

Dean Burk

#12. Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

David Jeremiah

#13. As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.

Barry Bonds

#14. Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding

#15. Hercule Poirot stared hard at Superintendent Sugden's moustache. Its luxuriance seemed to fascinate him.

Agatha Christie