Kanehara Ishihara Quotes & Sayings

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you! — Pliny The Elder

It's not about the future, it's about the moment. — Tammy Kling

Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She — Alexander McCall Smith

Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart. — Kate Flannery

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. — Nelson Mandela

There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses. — Karen Marie Moning

I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement. — Winston Churchill

His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever. — Maggie Stiefvater