Awkwardness Quote by Kōbō Abe Download Open image ““Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.”” — Kōbō Abe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awkwardness Enmity Hostility Humanity Nature of man Relationships
“Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with aliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Enemies must have common ground. Else, they are not enemies but strangers.” — Waldo Frank Copy Share Image
“It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.” — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“If you're looking for an enemy, stop imagining it's one group or another. All mankind is your enemy, including yourself.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do… — Michael Monroe Copy Share Image
“Are you going to flash that perfect smile of yours at our enemies and hope you can seduce them into stopping them from slaughtering… — Aubrie Nixon Copy Share Image
“I can't imagine anything more dangerous to the enemy of our hearts than people who know who they are.” — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“People like me who lack something are liable to become spiteful critics.” — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“Injuries to the body, especially the face, are not treated simply as problems of form. We should rather speak of themas belonging in the… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“What we mean when we say "terrible conditions" is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing.… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars — Jane Austen Copy Share
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out. — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. — Ovid Copy Share
“It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
