Chikusa Nippon Quotes & Sayings

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire. — Charles Dickens

At any given moment, four or five separate dialogues were going on across the table, but because people weren't necessarily talking to the person next to them, these dialogues kept intersecting with one another, causing abrupt shifts in the pairings of the speakers, so that everyone seemed to be taking part in all the conversations at the same time, simultaneously chattering away about his or her own life and eavesdropping on everyone else as well. Add to this the frequent interruptions from the children, the coming and goings of the different courses, the pouring of wine, the dropped plates, overturned glasses, and spilled condiments, the dinner began to resemble an elaborate, hastily improvised vaudeville routine. — Paul Auster

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying ... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice ... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks ... but nobody loved it. — Alfred Bester

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. — Ann Coulter

When most of us are walking around in higher states of consciousness most of the time, more creative solutions will be envisioned. — Bill Harvey

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C.S. Lewis

... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity. — Theresa Romain

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done. — Marilyn Monroe

People talk about the ability to endure. To endure anything and everything, to keep going, to be strong. But you can do that only if you're not alone. That's always the infrastructure life's built on. A closeness with others. Alone it all becomes a struggle of mere endurance. — Iain Reid

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want. — Henry Ward Beecher

Pain is hard to bear ... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away. — Theodore Tilton

Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job. — Max Levchin

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike. — Jacob Bronowski

Are you turning into a cougar? Is this some sort of midlife crisis I need to be concerned about? — Jennifer L. Armentrout