The Masao Quotes

#1. I was too young, then, to know that dead lovers are the toughest rivals.

Gregory David Roberts

#2. Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

Masao Abe

#3. The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

#4. As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to measure the degree of academic freedom in a country.

Masao Maruyama

#5. A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

Eugene V. Debs

#6. She did not know how the figure was, but she knew it was damaged too badly to live.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#7. I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Ilona Andrews

#8. When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.

Masao Abe

#9. In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

Masao Abe

#10. That mechanic was going to change everything

Marissa Meyer

#11. Even in the off season, people are streaming the show or buying the DVD sets, and new audience comes to 'Leverage' every year we've been doing it.

Timothy Hutton

#12. Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source.

Masao Abe

#13. Are you there, Felix? Are you there?

John Steakley

#14. You are
What you do
When it counts"
- The Masao

John Steakley

#15. Like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

Robin McKinley

#16. And, because you are so enamored with our captain," he held out his hand and grabbed hers, breaking her out of the trance. "I'm Royce, resident bad ass, all around swell motherfucker, and every woman's dream come true. Very nice to meet you.

Tigris Eden

#17. We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Thomas Bangalter

#18. I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made me uncomfortable. I felt like a novelty.

Winona LaDuke

#19. Am equally at home in an Anglican or Baptist church

David Frost

#20. BRAVE are the courageous souls who dare step outside the predefined yellowbrick road.

Kami Guildner

#21. The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

Pat Metheny

#22. If a thing goes without saying
let it.

Jacob Braude