Ayako Yamanaka Quotes & Sayings

Only a perfect rose, has the power to persuade a perusal of its petals — Gaiven Clairmont

With living creatures / one must begin very early / to dwarf their growth : / the bound feet, / the crippled brain, / the hair curlers, / the hands you / love to touch. — Marge Piercy

I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they had children. — Megan Mayhew Bergman

You should never be in a hurry if you can help it. It's bad for everything. Bad for the stomach, the spleen, the skin. Especially bad for the joints. The knees and ankles. Rushing isn't healthy at all. — Catherine Lacey

The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do. — A.W. Tozer

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people. — Kevin Mitnick

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life — Jack Kerouac

Damn. Six feet four and everything in proportion, the quote went. It was true in this case. — Stacia Kane

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy. — Carly Patterson

Salander fitted into this picture about as well as a buffalo in a boat show. — Stieg Larsson

Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked. — Nelson DeMille

Therefore any cruelty has to be executed at once, so that the less it is tasted, the less it offends; while benefits must be dispensed little by little, so that they will be savored all the more. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth. — Kim Stafford