“We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.” -- Yamaga Soko
#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Able Quotes
“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”
“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”
“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”
“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.”
“If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.”
“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”
“I need to be able to explain myself in context.”
“Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.”
“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Yoshida Shoin Intellectual
