Iretama Quotes & Sayings

For some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right. — Markus Zusak

If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow. — John Newbery

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. — E.W. Howe

Failure is a success if you learn from it. — Auliq Ice

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg. — Paul Scholes

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob. — Ann Coulter

People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure.
That was what looking at the witch was like. — Anne Ursu

If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person. — John Gokongwei

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth
the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy. — William Makepeace Thackeray

History is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material — Joshua Wolf Shenk

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit. — Samuel Johnson

Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly. — Fujio Mitarai

The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms. — John Dewey