Hirona Matsuda Quotes & Sayings

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science. — Jared Diamond

There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace. — Timothy Keller

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page. — Mel Brooks

I believe the vital ingredient is love - a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended. — Larry Dossey

Can I think about it?" "Sure." I nodded. "You have two minutes. Also, did you miss the part where I said sunset? True love? — Rachel Van Dyken

Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat. — Bobby Orr

They start the day confident, braced, believing themselves desired at Miss Smith's tea party; they say to themselves as they go into the room, I am the superior of half the people here, and it is thus that they speak with that self-confidence, that self-assurance, which have had such profound consequences in public life and lead to such curious notes in the margin of the private mind. — Virginia Woolf

We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Love can see the limitless beauty within self and within others. — Bryant McGill

As we experience the ups and downs of life - It's always nice to have someone there to remind us of the ups. — Mark Andre Alexander

The thing is, I'm not the only one this consciousness stuff is happening to. — Sara Wiseman

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God. — John Calvin

A black telephone
receiver was stuffed in the small space between his ear and his
shoulder; he motioned for them to sit in the stiff wooden armchairs in
front of his desk. Moments later he hung up the phone, the base
ringing lightly from the impact.
"So you're still in a mess, aren't you?" he said. — M.L. Terese

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. — Beth Henley