Amemiya For Mayor Quotes & Sayings

For Aristotle, it is not within our power to seek anything else, and thus /all/ acts have for their basic purpose the attainment of happiness or that which is good in itself and not merely as a means to something else. — Robert F. Almeder

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost. — Julian Of Norwich

There is plenty of suffering before the good happens. This is something that I have taken stock in, because I've dealt with plenty of bullshit for somebody so fresh out of the womb. — Alida Nugent

I had seen Star Wars a dozen times on video tape, and if anyone was so deprived as to have not watched it even once, then the country in which he lived surely needed a revolution. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them. — Arthur Bryant

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else. — Mitch Albom

Strain your brain more than your eye. — Thomas Eakins

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong. — Tullian Tchividjian

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had known
how to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humble
surroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war
in
all the exalted elements of romance. — Joseph Conrad

You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse. — Elizabeth Gaskell

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal. — Aldous Huxley

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. — Jessica Alba

Among Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysians, many hold the belief that when Admiral Cheng Ho landed in Nanyang, he relieved himself in the jungle, and the steaming puddle of shit and piss evolved into the durian tree. To put it less elegantly, the mounds of flesh inside the durian resemble a row of little turds, resting neatly in a boat-shaped husk. — Wong Yoon Wah

Firefly, it is an act of bravery to feel your feelings. Oh, Meg would've loved that. It's an act of bravery to feel your feelings, even if your feelings are telling you to die. — Gayle Forman