Hao Asakura Quotes & Sayings

If managed well, urbanization can create enormous opportunities: allowing innovation and new ideas to emerge, saving energy, land and natural resources, managing climate and the risk of disasters. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Sometimes smart people can be a special kind of stupid. The kind where they know so many facts and are so good at saying "no one would ever do that" that they somehow manage to convince themselves the world is going to care about what they think. — Mira Grant

Maybe not quite so simple. Because - all the way driving here, driving all night, Christmas lights on the motorway and I'm not ashamed to tell you, I got choked up - because I was thinking, couldn't help it, about the Bible story - ? you know, where the steward steals the widow's mite, but then the steward flees to far country and invests the mite wisely and brings back thousandfold cash to widow he stole from? And with joy she forgave him, and they killed the fatted calf, and made merry?" "I think that's maybe not all the same story. — Donna Tartt

This man bore no resemblance to the bearded, grizzled Akeley of the snapshot; but was a younger and more urban person, fashionably dressed, and wearing only a small, dark moustache. — H.P. Lovecraft

A lady's success will so often be looked on with dark suspicion, while a dude's success is looked on as his due. — Sarah Rees Brennan

The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air. — Joanna Baillie

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. — Mark Twain

In the US and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day. — Robert Zoellick

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own. — John Mortimer

Every night, we're all having multiple metaphysical experiences, wholly constructed by our subconscious. Almost one-third of our lives happens inside surreal mental projections we create without trying. A handful of highly specific dreams, such as slowly losing one's teeth, are experienced unilaterally by unrelated people in unconnected cultures. But these events are so personal and inscrutable that we've stopped trying to figure out what they mean. — Chuck Klosterman

I got poked in the left eye on the collision. My vision is blurry in that eye. I had to play. It was for coach, and because it was a district game. — George H. W. Bush

I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way. — Lev Grossman

The comment threw her off a little, not because of the words - words were cheap, after all - but because of the way Callan looked when he said it. — K.M. Shea

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall. — Christine Lavin