Kapok Hk Quotes & Sayings

So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality. — Charlotte Bronte

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
They scorn the best I can do to relate them. — Walt Whitman

Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote. — E.B. White

In a now famous commencement speech at Stanford University, Steve Jobs urged the graduating class to "stay hungry. Stay foolish." Never let go of your appetite to go after new ideas, new experiences, and new adventures. Compete with yourself, not with others. Judge yourself on what is your personal best and you'll accomplish more than you could ever have imagined. Life stops for no one, so keep moving. Stay awake and stay alive. — Sophia Amoruso

I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldn't let me. Some deep wrestling match going on inside my rib house and gray matter. Some woman in me I'd never met. You know who she was? My intellect. When I opened the door and there she stood, with her sassy red reading glasses and fitted skirt and leather bookbag, I thought, who the hell are you? Crouching into a defensive posture and looking at her warily out of the corner of my eye. Watch out, woman. To which she replied, I'm Lidia. I have a desire toward language and knowledge that will blow your mind. — Lidia Yuknavitch

As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than 132,000 such loans in 2007, an increase of more than 270 percent from two years earlier. — Charles Duhigg

The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free. — Abbas Kiarostami

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend. — Leo Robin

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. — Kristen Connolly

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school. — David E. Kelley

How one suffered for one's children - all their upsets a hurt; all their joys a triumph. 'And — Deryn Lake

As an actor there are no drawbacks. — John Malkovich

There's always someone stumbling upon the weird and thinking they are the first. — Thomm Quackenbush

But life is for living, isn't it? We all have to find some way to carry on. — Laura Barnett