Akihiko Yoshida Quotes & Sayings

It's right that you should do so, Fire. It's right and it's your right, because you're my beautiful child, and beauty has rights that plainness never will. — Kristin Cashore

A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot. — Robert Greene

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him. — Socrates

I totally allow myself
to feel every emotion,
whatever it is
and I observe it
from my inner space
of love and silence. — Human Angels

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you. — John Patrick Hickey

You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the moral world - THE VANITY OF A WOMAN! — Honore De Balzac

Put your trust in Him and following His example, always act humbly, graciously, and in good faith. — Vincent De Paul

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. — Samuel Smiles

He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other's suffering, and we
didn't now. — R.K. Lilley

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over. — Amy Hempel

I hope I'm never a mom. But if I am, I'll make damn sure my kids look up to me. — Ellen Hopkins

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. — Joseph Joubert

Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors ... the now and forever king-of-the-hill. — Cliff Asness

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. — Wendell Johnson