Ohtsuka Hiromichi Quotes

#1. The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#2. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#4. My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Tom Robbins

#5. It is to be hoped you are not 'intellectual,' which is an unpardonable trait

Mary MacLane

#6. This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

Anne Ursu

#7. The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

Robert Bresson

#8. Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

Stefan Collini

#9. I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.

Tim O'Brien