Kosugi Yasushi Quotes

#1. Everything he's learned about the Civil Service tells him that having tea poured for you is one of the ferociously guarded signifiers of rank, like the grade of paintings from the Government Art Collection hung on your office wall, or the quality of your carpet.

Charles Stross

#2. Creation is much in need of ordering.

Richard Powers

#3. I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Teresa Of Avila

#4. I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.

Paolo Veronese

#5. Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#6. A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

Joel Osteen

#7. I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

Emily Blunt