Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
-
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
-
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
-
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
-
I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
-
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
-
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
-
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
-
Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
-
I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
-
Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
-
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
-
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
-
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
-
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
-
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
-
What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
-
I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
-
I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
-
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
-
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
-
I saw Substance D growing. I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field, in stubbled color.
-
There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon.
-
It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
