Kanematsu Corporation Quotes & Sayings

It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever. — Ryu Murakami

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Stephen Covey

Mothering had come so naturally to Maureen. It was as if another woman had been waiting inside her all along, ready to slip out. She knew how to swing her body so that a baby slept; how to soften her voice; how to curl her hand to support his head. She knew what temperature the water should be in his bath, and when he needed to nap, and how to knit him blue wool socks. He had no idea she knew these things and he had watched with awe, like a spectator from the shadows. It both deepened his love for her and lifted her apart, so that just at the moment when he thought their marriage would intensify, it seemed to lose its way, or at least set them in different places. — Rachel Joyce

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes. — Will Ferrell

Make the big time where you are! — Frosty Westering

I'd be capable of doing almost anything, even leaving the woman I was living with, but I drew the line, of course, at giving away my books. — Paulo Coelho

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler

There are many other escapes from the empirical, external self, which might seem to be, but are not, contemplation. For instance, the experience of being seized and taken out of oneself by collective enthusiasm, in a totalitarian parade: the self-righteous upsurge of party loyalty that blots out conscience and absolves every criminal tendency in the name of Class, Nation, Party, Race or Sect.. Yet it is precisely these ersatz forms of enthusiasm that are "opium" for the people, deadening their awareness of their deepest and most personal needs, alienating them from their true selves, putting conscience and personality to sleep and turning free, reasonable men into passive instruments of the power politician. — Thomas Merton

How had I managed to edit all this out in the intervening years? How had I managed to turn her into the answer to all the world's problems? — Nick Hornby

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life. — Sukant Ratnakar

Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them. — Charles Kennedy

Tonight I was stealing the time of another woman. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Why do you hang out with him?"
"We're teammates."
Ahhh. And if blood was thicker than water, then football, evidently, would congeal in one's veins. — Rachel Vincent