Hirimasa Quotes & Sayings

Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand. — Pope Francis

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper. — Don Rickles

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offer us unprecedented information about the structure and working of the brain. But don't forget that, once, wrapping a tape measure around the head was considered modern and sophisticated, and it's important not to fall into the same old traps. As we'll see in later chapters, although certain popular commentators make it seem effortlessly easy, the sheer complexity of the brain makes interpreting and understanding the meaning of any sex differences we find in the brain a very difficult task. But the first, and perhaps surprising, issue in sex differences research is that of knowing which differences are real and which, like the intially promising cephalic index, are flukes or spurious. — Cordelia Fine

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal — Donald E. Williams Jr.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade. — Brian Sibley

I can't live without you or with you. — Ovid

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way. — Ben Mitchell

But all the wanting in the world, her mother reminded her, will leave you with exactly what you have. — Alexander Maksik

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly. — Kim Edwards

The U.N. was there to protect other Rwandese. — Tony Greig

A less well known impact of immigrant populations is the increase that destination states gain in Congress where apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is calculated on the basis of a state's entire adult population regardless of legal status. And, because each state's electoral college vote is the sum of the number of its representatives in the House and its two senators, high immigration states play a larger role in presidential elections than they might if only adult citizens and legal aliens were counted in population surveys. — Edward S. Greenberg

The theater is the thing I love doing most. — Judi Dench

It's as if you'd gambled away almost all your money and decided, What the hell, I'll bet what's left — Haruki Murakami

To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream. — Paulo Coelho