La Hiki Four Seasons Quotes & Sayings

Colin was beginning to be afraid( ... )of the future, of the possibility, suddenly glimpsed, that his life might end like this. Like most young people, he'd always assumed, without ever really thinking about it, that regret, waste, failure lay in wait for others, but not for him. Now( ... )he realized, for the first time, that he was not exempt, that this, unless he took steps to avoid it, could happen to him. — Pat Barker

Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow. — Abraham Cowley

Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget. — Luca Parmitano

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown! — Serena Williams

Pain is the root of knowledge. — Simone Veil

The algorithms in his hard drive scrambled and his coding short-circuited. Like she'd downloaded a virus right into his system, he got feverishly hot. — Kelly Moran

I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive. — Chuck Close

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Music, the perfume of hearing, probably began as a religious act, to arouse groups of people. — Diane Ackerman

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent. — Charlie Munger

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy. — Claude Monet

There was a scientist who did not believe in gods or fairies or supernatural creatures of any sort. But she had once known an angel, and had talked to her every day. — Daryl Gregory

Usually when you practice zazen, you become very idealistic, and you set up an ideal or goal which you strive to attain and fulfill. But as I have often said, this is absurd. When you are idealistic, you have some gaining idea within yourself; by the time you attain your ideal or goal, your gaining idea will create another ideal. — Shunryu Suzuki