Ueda Akinari famous quotes

Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
-- Ueda Akinari

#Heart #Water #Tea

Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.
-- Ueda Akinari

#Heart #Constant

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.
-- Ueda Akinari

#Men #Shallow

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
-- Ueda Akinari

#Heart #Men #May

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?
-- Ueda Akinari

#Moon #Night #Wind

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.