Matsudaira Hirotada Quotes & Sayings

Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics ... — Steve Roper

Sometimes I find myself standing on the edge of a pool of despair, filled by my tears...but not today. — Judith Sanders

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do. — Morgan Freeman

I write to express my love for the humanity. — Debasish Mridha

It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work. — May Sarton

At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black sheets. I'd get in bed wearing a nightcap, and my fans would get in bed with me, one at a time, and I'd sign their memorabilia. And then I'd give them a free pint of Ben & Jerry's. — Wavy Gravy

Bureaucracy is the rule of nobody and is therefore experienced as tyranny. — Lesslie Newbigin

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker

There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home. — Francis A. Schaeffer

I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope. — Bill Moyers

Almost, I thought. Out loud I said, Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.
Auden — Sarah Dessen

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed. — David Graeber

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. — Kate Mosse

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today. — Bob Filner