Akiyoshi Quotes & Sayings

Two people can work on a problem better than one. — Whitfield Diffie

'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it once. I'm saving it for the right moment.' — Amanda Steiger

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions. — Ronald Graham

Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world. — Stanley Hauerwas

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe. — Hiromi

1939 New York World's Fair, — Stephen E. Ambrose

We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before. [...] I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of Sustainable Development. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us. — Stuart Scott

Happiness lies in our heart. We have to nurture it with blossoms of faith and steady stream of goodness to brush aside the thistles of everyday strife. — Balroop Singh

I'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT. — Thom Yorke

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor. — Harry S. Truman

Life and the things you loved were worth fighting for. — Talli Roland

I'm not bulletproof, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this. As women, we relive our fears all the time, despite our best efforts to build each other up and truly love ourselves. It happens. — Amy Schumer