“Good ideas don’t stand a chance against good bureaucracy.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Is it true the green tea they serve in Japan at the end of your meal comes free?”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Death comes quick, in the beat of a heart, and he ain't picky about who he takes.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“In war, fear is the woman your mother warned you about.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“If there’s a heaven, it’s a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“They say people who die in dreams are supposed to live forever.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary— too easy to rewrite.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“There’s not a drop of hero’s blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I’m just an ordinary guy, and proud of it. I’m here because I put in the time. I have the blisters on my fingers to prove it. It had nothing to do with coincidence, luck, or the activation of my Wonder Twin powers. I reset the game hundreds of times until my special attack finally went off perfectly. Victory was inevitable. So please, hold off on all the hero talk.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“The human body is a funny machine. When you want to move something - say, your arm - the brain actually sends two signals at the same time: "More power!" and "Less power!" The operating system that runs the body automatically holds some power back to avoid overexerting and tearing itself apart. Not all machines have that built - in safety feature. You can point a car at a wall, slam the accelerator to the floor, and the car will crush itself against the wall until the engine is destroyed or runs out of gas.
Martial arts use every scrap of strength the body has at its disposal. In martial arts training, you punch and shout at the same time. Your "Shout louder!" command helps to override the "Less power!" command. With practice, you can throttle the amount of power your body holds back. In essence, you're learning to channel
the body's power to destroy itself.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“At the end of the day, every man has to wipe his own ass.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“But even as the fear racks my body, it soothes me, comforts me. Soldiers who get washed away in a rush of adrenaline don't survive. In war, fear is the woman your mother warned you about. You knew she was no good for you, but you couldn't shake her. You had to find a way to get along, because she wasn't going anywhere.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“My body never changed, but the OS that ran it had seen a total overhaul.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Generals were early to bed, early to rise, always brushing their teeth after every meal, never skipping a morning shave. All they had to do was sit back in Nagano drawing up their battle plans. One order from them and us mortals on the front lines would move like pawns across a chessboard to our grisly fates. I’d like to see just one of them here with us in the mud. We had our own rules down here. Which is probably why they stayed away. If one of them showed, I’d see to it a stray bullet put them on the Killed In Action list.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Of course, there were only three kinds of battle to begin with: fucked up, seriously fucked up, and fucked up beyond all recognition”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“All I could hear were screams, sobbing, and “Fuck!” Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! The profanities were flying as thick as the bullets.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Is cooking dangerous?"
Most would answer no. But what is a gas range but a short - range flame thrower? Any number of flammable materials might lie waiting beneath the average kitchen sink. Shelves lined with pots could weaken and fall in an avalanche of iron and steel. A butcher's knife could kill as easily as a dagger.
Yet few people would consider cooking a dangerous profession, and indeed, the actual danger is remote. Anyone who has spent any time in a kitchen is familiar with the inherent risks, such as they are, and knows what can be done safely and what can't. Never throw water on an oil fire, keep the knife pointed away from your carotid artery, don't use rat poison when the recipe calls for
parmesan cheese.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“You shouldn’t assume everything you don’t understand is a message,”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“We’d never trained together, but we moved like twins, veterans of countless battles at each other’s side.
She really was a master. In less than five minutes, she’d learned to work in tandem with me. When she realized I could use a free arm or leg to knock her clear of an attack, she turned and faced the next enemy head on, without any intent of dodging. A Mimic foreleg came within a hand’s breadth of her face and she didn’t even flinch.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Who knows? Maybe something will change. Or maybe, I’ll find a way to take this fucking world and piss in its eye.That’d be just fine by me.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“How many loops is this for you?”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“They ate earth and shat out poison, leaving behind a lifeless wasteland. The alien intelligence that had created them had mastered space travel and learned to send information through time. Now they were taking our world and turning it into a facsimile of their own, every last tree, flower, insect, animal, and human be damned.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Food is like war. You have to experience it for yourself.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“It was like a software if/then routine: If checkflag RitajoinsPT =true, then end. Else continue routine: FuckingIsoPush-Ups”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“Well, anyway Rita, I have to run, some, uh, Bechdel tests on your jacket.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“and all who trained, slept, and shat within its walls.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
“At the end of the day, every man has to wipe his own ass. There’s no one to make your decisions for you, either.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, quote from All You Need Is Kill
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“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.”
― Jean Cocteau, quote from The Holy Terrors
“Indeed, taxation and other forms of aggression-through-government are so taken for granted in our culture that one of our most popular sayings is that "nothing is certain except death and taxes." Yet slavery was once as universal. Taxation is thought to be indispensable to civilization today, just as slavery once was. Advocates of taxation claim that since most people pay assigned taxes before the guns show up, they have implicitly agreed to it as the price of living in "society." Most slaves obeyed their master before he got out the whip, yet we would hardly argue that this constituted agreement to their servitude. Today, we have an enlightened perspective on slavery, just as one day we will have an enlightened perspective on taxes and other forms of aggression we now think of as "the only way.”
― Mary J. Ruwart, quote from Healing Our World: In an Age of Aggression
“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.”
― Keith Ferrazzi, quote from Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
“What did she do that made her happy? The question implied action, a conscious purpose. She did many things in a day, and many things made her happy, but that, Claire could tell, wasn’t the issue. Nor the only one, Claire realized. Because in order to consciously do something that made you happy, you’d have to know who you were. Trying to figure that out these days was like fishing on a lake on a moonless night—you had no idea what you would get.”
― Erica Bauermeister, quote from The School of Essential Ingredients
“Toward early morning he woke, sat up quickly and looked about him. It was still dark and the fire had long since died, still dark and quiet with that silence that seems to be of itself listening, an astral quiet where planets collide soundlessly, beyond the auricular dimension altogether. He listened. Above the black ranks of trees the mid-summer sky arched cloudless and coldly starred. He lay back and stared at it and after a while he slept.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from The Orchard Keeper
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