Yamamoto Kansuke Quotes

I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

I knew most married women in my community put up with everything and anything. Any abuse, hopelessness, and I thought, was I here to be used and be abused? I knew there was so much I could do with my life, but on my terms.

I think I am, therefore I am. I think.

He looked as bright as a new shilling in his immaculate white robes.

They thought I should be doing women things.

A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

O degli uomini inferma e instabil mente!
Come siàn presti a variar disegno!
Tutti i pensier mutamo facilmente,
Più quei che nascon d’amoroso sdegno.

I’ve been doing this a long time. I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children.

Life in the islands is not easy, because there are very few resources, and you could say that my life and life in the islands are related

I remember that when we began our friendship, our minds were full of noble thoughts and we often thought of living a quiet life in the mountains.

I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter'.

A pretty little story is related by Stobæus: "A youth who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learnt the first proposition, inquired, 'What do I get by learning these things?' So Euclid called his slave and said, 'Give him threepence, since he must make gain out of what he learns.

Padmasambhava defined the future of Tibet, planting the seeds of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, which would come to flourish over the next millennium. Padmasambhava taught that past and present are interrelated, connected to each other in one’s present experience.