Date Masamune Quotes
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Quotes to Explore
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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My philosophy is always to hire the best from the best.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.
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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
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Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
