Quotes About Shinto

#1. Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was as foolhardy as it would have been to write emperor-worship and Shinto militarism into Japan's 1946 constitution.

Robert Spencer

#2. Shinto, which says that sexual pleasure is the greatest of all - and therefore should be enjoyed as frequently as possible as well as in the most exciting way.

Shubhaa Fisher

#3. I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine ... I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere ... Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine ... a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear.

Marie Kondo

#5. The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordaining that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.

Kakuzo Okakura

#6. One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

Robert Hughes

#7. On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

Barack Obama

#8. Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.

Hanya Yanagihara

#9. Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

Ian Watson

#10. Don't cry, Raine. Not for me." "Someone should," she said.

Shay Savage

#11. I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Dave Davies

#12. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Tiny shouts in my ear, and I want to say, Hopefully, go find a guy who knows there is no u in awesome

John Green

#13. I want to try to figure out what I'm supposed to do, what I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

Jeanne Ray

#14. If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee, I don't care. It's a passion of mine.

Rie Rasmussen

#15. It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

Fanny Fern

#16. To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty.

Yukitaka Yamamoto

#17. Love at first sight? Let me just put on my glasses.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#18. I just started training with the best fighters in the world trying to get better. I was a pretty good athlete so I did pretty well with the team and that gave me confidence that I would be able to compete with people.

Robbie Lawler

#19. What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

William Shakespeare

#20. I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

Chris Squire