Yoshiro Nakamatsu Quotes

#1. For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

Rory Stewart

#2. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chogyam Trungpa

#3. Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Neil Kinnock

#4. The fable of us had been rewritten. With a spin that had exposed the truth. Instead of the happily never after we'd been dealt or with the happily ever after that was a lie, we were retelling the ending. Boone and Clara - happily even after. It was a great story. The greatest one I'd ever heard.

Nicole Williams

#5. Sometimes a short cut is just a short cut to disaster.

Ethan Trex

#6. I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

Elie Wiesel

#7. No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for.

Nikolay Semyonov

#8. No Matter How High You Are, You Will End Up At Six Feet Under. Enjoy your OWN life.

Wuwun Wiati

#9. There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

Philip Yancey

#10. Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.

Alan Furst

#11. We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

Mike Carey