Akarin Stand Quotes & Sayings

Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony adjoining your bedroom. You knew the grimy window panes were caked with dead ants and dust, and smelt as sour as the curtains. But the sparrow wasn't put off. It jumped inside the covered balcony and ruffled its feathers, releasing a sweet smell of tree bark into the air. Then it flew into your bedroom, landed on your chest and stayed there like a cold egg. — Ma Jian

I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics. — Shawn Johnson

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late. — William Shakespeare

They are very different. Women who are empowered by it and have choices based off of their sexuality, are very different from the ones that are being taken advantage of. — Amber Heard

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Someone was knocking on her windshield. Georgie lifted her head off the steering wheel. It was Kendrick. She couldn't really hear what he was saying. She rolled down the window. "Are you okay?" he asked. "I'm fine." "Okay." Kendrick nodded. "'Cause, the thing is, you look kind of like you're sitting in your car crying." "I'm done crying," she said. "Now I'm just sitting in the car." "Oh, well. Okay. — Rainbow Rowell

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. — Steven Spielberg

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie. — Emily VanCamp

How much sinning could you actually have done at a second-grade level? — Bruce Springsteen

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

From The Twelve Enlightenments
Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think it's you is not the main protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, "My life" is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don't posses life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life. — Ilchi Lee

It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter. — Ringo Starr

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that. — Tom T. Hall

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness. — David Gest