Gion Quotes & Sayings

I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him. — Arthur Golden

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes. — John Major

I won't break his heart to fix you. — Jamie McGuire

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will. — Joyce Meyer

The most obvious problem with estimating a dummy dependent variable model using OLS is that the predicted probabilities aren't guaranteed — Roberto Pedace

Happy New Year' is a festive form of address often uttered without thinking. Yet how many souls will in fact be happy in the coming year is a taxing question requiring a great deal more thought. — Alex Morritt

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out. — Bear Bryant

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves. — Gertrude Atherton

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce. — Michel De Montaigne

The bells of the Gion monastery in India echo with the warning that all things are impermanent. The blossoms of the sala trees teach us through their hues that what flourishes must fade. The proud do not prevail for long but vanish like a spring night's dream. In time the mighty, too, succumb: all are dust before the wind. — Heike

Gion had tried to use logic on Cross and it had been like reasoning with a cement wall on meth. — Cassandra Gannon

The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall. The proud do not endure, like a passing dream on a night in spring; the mighty fall at last, to be no more than dust before the wind. — Helen Craig McCullough