Kiyohiro Woodblock Quotes & Sayings

As the number of female gubernatorial candidates increases, we believe that the opportunities to elect more women to the governorship will also expand. It appears that as more women run for and win local, state, and national offices, the candidate pool of women with ample political experience to run for governor and mount viable campaigns also increases. — Sue Thomas

If you always look over your shoulder, how can you still remain human? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline. — Martin Jacques

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. — Sean Penn

I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things. — Zhuangzi

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections. — John Dewey

It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces. — Missy Lyons

If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts. — Ma Jun

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. — Phoebe Cary

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time. — Chris Hadfield

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire

There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future. — Gichin Funakoshi

As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. — John Stossel