Hyukjae Quotes & Sayings

I had married an environmentalist and didn't know it.
I knew without having to look that there was no tree hugging indemnity clause even in the fine print of our marriage certificate. But we'd been manacled together in the Catholic Church. I wondered if I could get some leverage with the religious institution if I pinned my wife with the label of nature-worshipping Wiccan or possibly even Druid. — Michael Gurnow

To know you can do better next time, unrecognizably better, and that there is no next time, and that it is a blessing there is not, there is a thought to be going on with. — Samuel Beckett

It is the patchiness of the record that makes each new find look so sudden and distinct from all the others. — Bill Bryson

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life. — Robert D. Hales

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said. — D. A. Carson

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. — Alex Cox

Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit. — Jesse Harris

When you go to Africa and you see people who are just like you and me - this is always my starting point. These are people who are just like you and me. The same synapses, same things are firing off in their heads, same dreams for their children, same hopes and aspirations that we all have. What can one do to reduce the possibility that their chances of a happy and healthy and prosperous life are not solely determined by the accident of where they were born? — Michael Elliott

You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't. — Glen Duncan

Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination. — Brandon Sanderson

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it! — Leo Tolstoy

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying: — Aristotle.

My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way. — Ted Godwin

We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions ... and we need to do it under tight control. — Wu Yi