Nipponese Quotes

#1. The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

Neal Stephenson

#2. The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the
body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul
is ancient, the stuff of stars.

Normandi Ellis

#4. Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

Katie Pavlich

#5. There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#6. I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Marty Allen

#8. The blacklist was a time of evil ... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil ... [Looking] back on this time ... it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

Dalton Trumbo

#9. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Beth Wiseman

#10. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

E. O. Wilson

#11. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

Kent Nerburn

#12. In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

Baron De Montesquieu

#13. When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

Azar Nafisi

#14. And I say north is where I want it to be!

Jaya

#15. This is my life, this is my passion, this is all I got.

John Cena