Kumakiri Elementary Quotes & Sayings

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Laying aside also all considerations of works and engines of war, the invention of which has long since reached its limit, and for the improvement of which I see no further hope in the applied arts, I shall recognize the following types of stratagems connected with siege operations ... — Frontinus

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow. — John Wayne

The evidence is that people who enter hospice don't have shorter lives. In many cases they are longer. — Atul Gawande

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke

My friend!" I exclaimed, "man is but man; and, whatever be the extent of his reasoning powers, they are of little avail when passion rages within, and he feels himself confined by the narrow limits of nature. It were better, then - but we will talk of this some other time," I said, and caught up my hat. Alas! my heart was full; and we parted without conviction on either side. How rarely in this world do men understand each other! August — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase. — Gustave Flaubert

Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving. — Pope Francis

Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I have discussed this with him and he points out that the Rolex Oyster Perpetual weighs about six ounces and would appreciably slow up the use of his left hand in combat. His practice, in fact, is to use fairly cheap, expendable wrist watches on expanding metal bracelets which can be slipped forward over the thumb and used in the form of a knuckle-duster, either on the outside or the inside of the hand. — Ian Fleming

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems. — Jonathan Maberry

With the growing popularity in e-learning, it occurred to me that the e should mean more than electronic. If we are going to call it e-learning, shouldn't it be effective, efficient, and engaging? — M David Merrill

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months. — Joe Haldeman