Takeo Yoshikawa Quotes

#1. The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#2. To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

Albert Einstein

#3. The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.

Idries Shah

#4. The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head.

Neel Mukherjee

#5. People ask, "Have you ever seen the gods you worship? How can you be sure they exist?" Answers: i. Just look around you. ii. I've never seen my soul either. And yet I revere it. That's how I know the gods exist and why I revere them - from having felt their power, over and over.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. I love you Lord!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

Anatole France

#8. I hide away in stillness, and the world spins on. I have wasted much.

Sere Prince Halverson

#9. Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

Karl Popper

#10. If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.

Michael Pollan

#11. Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Kathy Reichs

#12. I have this weird musical thing I do: I play violin, and I even went on tour with Tim Robbins. We did a bunch of Canadian cities, and then went down to the States, and then we ended up in Japan.

David Alpay

#13. I enjoy the times of plenteous and endure the times of scarceness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager

Bette Davis

#15. Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

Ogden Nash