Akinobu Shinoyama Quotes & Sayings

Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing. — Kate Chopin

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words. — Walter Darby Bannard

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed. — Sara Paretsky

So if you don't show, I'm going to come up and drag you downstairs." "I can almost assure you that that plan would backfire," he said. "Next time I get you alone in my apartment, I won't let you off so easy," he said levelly, staring ahead. — Jessica Hawkins

To achieve big things you have to have big dreams. — Conrad Hilton

We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century. — Jonathon Porritt

High school music teachers ... nobody makes a living off it. — David Ogden Stiers

Every journey starts with a single step. — Confucius

I needed to see you. I thought I could do this ... without seeing you ... but I can't. I'm sorry. — Elizabeth Finn

Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.' — John Ortberg

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered. — Harlan F. Stone

We don't do funerals in my family. — Marie Helvin

I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the strange door, in my life, which had suddenly been thrown open and out of which came an air of a keenness I had never breathed and of a taste stronger than wine. I had heard all my days of apparitions, but it was a different thing to have seen one and to know that I should in all likelihood see it familiarly, as I might say, again. I was on the lookout for it as a pilot for the flash of a revolving light and ready to generalise on the sinister subject, to answer for it to all and sundry that ghosts were much less alarming and much more amusing than was commonly supposed. There's no doubt that I was much uplifted. I couldn't get over the distinction conferred on me, the exception - in the way of mystic enlargement of vision - made in my favour.
("Sir Edmund Orme") — Henry James

The essential of the guild-idea is that [of] men pursuing the same form of activity, but only in cooperation limited to the end of preserving the economic freedom-that is the property and livelihood-of each member of the guild. — Hilaire Belloc

I'm a small shifty kind of guy. — Dave Franco