Kansai Oakland Quotes & Sayings

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition. — Ruth Benedict

I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love. — Simone Elkeles

There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all. — Niall Williams

Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not. — Pope Francis

I stay active and choose to associate myself with like-minded people. — Jake T. Austin

One of the first symptoms of time-lag is a tendency to maudlin sentimentality, like an Irishman in his cups or a Victorian poet cold-sober. — Connie Willis

Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola — Tom Frieden

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them. — Criss Jami

Dakota's gaze met her luggage, which was strewn, panties and all, across the sidewalk with more than one dog sniffing the contents. Now that has to go in a book. — Catherine Bybee

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it. — Margaret Deland

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful. — Indira Gandhi

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. — Walter Bagehot