Fructus Forsythiae Quotes & Sayings

By 1957, a mere eleven years after its devastation, Japan not only had the most modern steel mills in the world but was the foremost steel producer in the world. But that was just the beginning: In the decade following 1957, Japanese steel production grew by 170 percent - while the American steel industry grew only 20 percent. The American steel industry, believing itself invulnerable, was headed by a complacent and insular management which was slow to bring in modern technology and which, even as the challenger grew more proficient, locked the industry into ever costlier labor agreements. By 1964, 28 percent of Japan's steel exports was going to America. In Japan, a thrust in shipbuilding followed closely upon the success in steel; by 1956 Japan had replaced Britain as the world's leading shipbuilding nation. — David Halberstam

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. — James Martineau

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid. — Robin Hobb

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God. — Aristotle.

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me. — Sundar Pichai

Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment. — Uzoma Nnadi

We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all. — Brent Weeks

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained; the slow ease and the silence could, once night had fallen, fill him with a happiness that nothing, no society nor the company of any individual, no glamour or glitter, could equal. — Colm Toibin

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents. — Ellen Galinsky

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period. — Steve Almond

What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim? — Kresley Cole

I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time ... Then I won't see him. — Na Hae Ryeong

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. — Bob Marley

Chloe helps to calm me. She makes me feel like nothing in this world exist other than the two of us. I love her more than anything and one day she'll be all mine. — T.H. Snyder

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson