Hashida Norihiko Quotes & Sayings

It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement. — Binyavanga Wainaina

Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school. — David Berkowitz

Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who has it, gives it free of charge. — Ellen J. Barrier

Nations. These monuments are not merely pretty things, not merely valued signs of man's creative power. They are expressions of faith, and they stand for man's struggle to relate himself to his past and to his God. — Robert M. Edsel

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path. — Andrew Lincoln

A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss. — Eric Schneiderman

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out. — Marty Rubin

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

...an early missionary in New Zealand heard a Maori warrior taunting the preserved head of an enemy chief in the following fashion:

You wanted to run away, did you? but my meri (war club] overtook you: and after you were cooked, you made food for my mouth. And where is your father? he is cooked: and where is your brother? he is eaten:-and where is your wife? there she sits, a wife for me:-and where are your children? there they are, with loads on their backs, carrying food, as my slaves.' In Maori warfare, decapitation marked the beginning, not the end, of a vanquished warrior's humiliation. — Lawrence Keeley