Hizashi Yamada Quotes & Sayings

When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn't. After what I'd been through I felt I couldn't go back to school. I learnt nothing at my prep school anyway. I felt I couldn't enter into a freshman's life. They wouldn't have liked me. I didn't want to act a part I didn't feel. And I didn't think the instructors would teach me the sort of things I wanted to know. — W. Somerset Maugham

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know. — Colleen Houck

In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

{Explaining her use of a male pseudonym in a letter to Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1807} — Sophie Germain

I watched your father killed before my eyes, she might have said. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love. — Helen Humphreys

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit. — Piet Mondrian

In place of Revenge, the Minority Mindset teaches to seek Peace and Reconciliation — Paul Gitwaza

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game. — LeBron James

Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped. — Elton John

We stand not as victims, but rather to bear witness to the gender injustices present in our lives and in our world as a whole. — William Keepin

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student. — Yip Man

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. — Mira Sorvino

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems. — Ezra Taft Benson

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative. — Frederick Lenz