Reischauer Quotes

#1. Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

Siobhan Fahey

#2. But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.

Brad Barkley

#3. Christ will receive all who come to Him, but
Christ will not be sweet to them until sin is first bitter in them.

Joel R. Beeke

#4. Sometimes God will take you to a prison to set you free.

Sheila Walsh

#5. The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

Tony Kushner

#6. Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).

Robert Reischauer

#7. Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#8. We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt.

Robert Reischauer

#9. There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

Robert Reischauer

#10. The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

Britt Ekland

#12. The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.

Edwin O. Reischauer

#13. Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

Edwin O. Reischauer

#14. They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

Robert Reischauer

#15. Hmmmm ... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.

Grandmaster Flash