Tsukahara Bokuden Quotes

#1. The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Mary Stewart

#2. The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

John Gerzema

#3. Tell him to leave me alone, Astrid. Else I'll have to barbecue him and make akri angry at me. I don't want to make akri angry. (Simi)
Simi? Is that you? (Astrid)
Yes. C'est moi. The little demon with hornays. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Natasha Trethewey

#5. While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

Henry Seidel Canby

#6. I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

Eli Roth

#7. If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Benjamin Rush

#8. Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.

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#9. Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [ ... ] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.

Carey Wallace

#10. My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.

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#11. Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Simon Mainwaring