Hidehiko Ichimura Quotes & Sayings

ghost44: And if the person doesn't reach back?
johnnyrotten: Then they don't reach back. Only you have to believe they will, or you're not really reaching. — Todd Mitchell

Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across. — William Booth

I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work on something for months and really feel like the project is good and you're doing the best work you can, and then it just gets hammered by critics. It's such a bummer sometimes, because everything seems to build up to the release and a couple of bad reviews can make it seem like it was all a waste, which you know it wasn't. — Jeff Cardoni

Do your duty. Love your country. Live with honor. Suck it up. — Elaine Lowry Brye

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement. — Bryant McGill

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Yet Tracey was steadfast and loyal to his memory, far more likely to defend her absent father than I was to speak kindly of my wholly attentive one. — Zadie Smith

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda

Beauty is when the beauty within reflects exactly on the outside. — Saleem Sharma

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever ... promises break. Hearts break. — Jodi Picoult

Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin