Niclays Roos Quotes

A former exile who dabbles in alchemy and spent weeks in the employ of pirates. Yes, that sounds like someone they would want to mold the minds of the next generation. ~ Samantha Shannon

You are a servant of the Nameless One.

Oh, nothing as exciting as that, Lady Tané. Just a lonely old man, trying to get off this island so I can die in my own country. ~ Samantha Shannon

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me. ~ Lisa Kudrow

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property. ~ John Roos

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena. ~ John Roos

There could be no snakes in Quintana Roo's garden.
Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll. ~ Joan Didion

Troll welcomes you to Norway, (these legendary creatures live throughout the mountains of Norway) ~ Constance Roos

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills. ~ John Roos

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues. ~ John Roos

Direct flights facilitate business. They facilitate business-to-business collaborations. I think anything that makes it easier to bring two areas together is a significant benefit to deepening relations and connections. ~ John Roos

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it. ~ John Roos

I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people. ~ John Roos

For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons. ~ John Roos

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese. ~ John Roos

Dominique Bauby (1997), who was the editor in chief of the French Elle magazine, has authored a small and extremely sensitive and articulated work, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. His wording is amazingly precise. Bauby suffered a cerebrovascular accident to his brain stem in December 1995. The result was "locked-in ~ Susan Roos

It's not brave if your not scared. ~ Don Roos

No," De Roos said. "You mustn't thank me. The relatives of patients thank the physician as if the physician were God. It's no good, and if the patient dies it turns to ash - not just for them, but, as you can imagine, for me. I'll see you later. ~ Mark Helprin

Say the point of sex isn't recreation of procreation or any of that stuff. Say it's concentration. Say it's supposed to focus your attention on the person you're sleeping with--like biological hi-lighter. ... Otherwise, there's just too many people in the world. ~ Don Roos

I'm inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction. ~ John Roos

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations. ~ John Roos

The important thing is that short and strenuous reverence be paid to the spirit of discipline. Three things keep a body of troops in fighting form: fighting spirit, strength and discipline. Fighting spirit – as I have said before – is the least easy to influence. It is the great prerequisite and justification of war – the spirit of the race and of the blood pledged to the last drop. There lie the roos of the strength whose full development is dependent on outward conditions, fresh air nourishment, clothing, and a lot else. When this soil fails fighting spirit is like a seedling plated in arenaceous quartz – it goes on growing for a while of its own resources and then gives out. It is a tragic destiny when a great enterprise comes to grief from this cause. Finally, the purpose of discipline is to economize and direct the two elements so that they are brought to bear on one aim with overwhelming force. It is a means, not an end; it is in seeing it in its true proportion that the real fighter is distinguished from the soldier. It is one of the danger-points of the Prussian system that it easily loses sight of the spirit in the letter and of real strength in the empty show of it. One of the most terrible apparitions is the sheer drill-master – a machine that goes by clockwork. It is bound to break down for the mere reason that in war there is no rule but the exception. ~ Ernst Junger

What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce. ~ John Roos