Hanamasa Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Winning the love of a higher-status person is a widespread strategy for stimulating serotonin. Of course, we don't consciously equate love with status. But when a highstatus person of the right gender notices you, your brain lights up. Your neurochemistry screams "Go toward this. It is very good for your survival. " Even bonobos, the apes known for their sexual dynamism, compete vigorously for high-status partners — Anonymous

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away. — Andrew Solomon

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that. — Jakob Dylan

To be a philosopher ... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. — Henry David Thoreau

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life. — Martin Scorsese

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. — Jane Grey

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. — Ayn Rand

The girl reflected back from the window in front of me has poinsettias growing out of her belly and head. She's the shape of a breakfast-link sausage standing on broomstick legs, her arms made from twigs, her face blurred with an eraser. I know that this is me, but it's not me, not really. I don't know what I look like. I can't remember how to look. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised — Dick Durbin

Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do. — Evelyn Waugh

The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public. — P.A. Wunderlich

During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to do the same; otherwise it isn't part of Europe. — Wolfgang Schauble

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy. — Deng Xiaoping