Ryushin Shouchi Quotes

#1. They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

Jon Ronson

#2. I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

Daniel Drezner

#3. Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.

Keith Carter

#4. Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.

Scott Snyder

#5. I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.

Benedict Smith

#6. I love you just the way you are
but you don't see you like I do.
You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect.
Trust me, perfect should try to be you.

Bo Burnham

#7. My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

Suzanne Collins

#8. My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Joseph Barbera

#9. Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Oscar Wilde

#10. We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision

Roy Davis

#11. Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

George Whitefield

#12. Astley comes to my side. "Are you well?" "No," I tell him, voice hoarse. "I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know ... I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again".

Carrie Jones