Chisato Shirasagi Quotes & Sayings

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster. — Dean Koontz

Anyone can get their hands on a fortune but to become successful one must work intelligent and hard.- EMW — Erik Martin Willen

The human mind is stimulated by change, motivated by meeting the challenge of novelty or threat or pleasure, rewarded with the sensations of being instrumental in altering environments, and will persevere in this as long as there is some degree of perceivable progress. People turn to knitting baby booties, doing crossword puzzles, collecting rare coins; they may even make an effort to understand E=mc2 or to study the genetic adaptations of cacti, but in all cases, they need to see some fruit of their labors. — Michael D. O'Brien

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour? — Kristin Davis

I have had my share of brawls, for I am someone who takes a stand. — Sunny Deol

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. — Alfred North Whitehead

Classical Studies
Question: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death?

Answer: Suspicious ones — Richard Benson

His two podium candidates looked like two blokes who had just got up from the Christmas buffet. — Bjarne Riis

Rose once told me "If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking."
Adrian Ivashkov to Sydney Sage — Richelle Mead

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile. — Zora Neale Hurston

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice. — Judy Grahn