Medaka Box Quotes & Sayings

He was our enemy, but as it is strange, after so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend. — John Edward Williams

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well. — Tim Cook

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow. — Sidney Jourard

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry. — Derek Bok

When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together. — Zainab Salbi

The difference isn't resources, it's attitude. — Malcolm Gladwell

I want to beat them. Even though I'm not cool, or strong, or just, or beautiful, or cute, or pretty, I want to beat the cool, strong, just, beautiful, cute, and pretty people. Even though I wasn't blessed with talent, even though I'm stupid and have a bad personality, have bad grades, am misguided and am a good for nothing, I want to beat the talented, smart, likeable, overachieving people. I want to beat those with friends when I can't have friends. I want to beat the people who work hard when I can't work hard. I want to beat the the victorious people when I can't win. I want to beat the happy people when I'm miserable. Even if I'm hated, even if I'm despised, even if I'm useless, I want to prove that I'm better than the main characters! — NisiOisiN

Never believe a man can change a woman
those men are pretenders
who think
that they created women
from one of their ribs — Nizar Qabbani

Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and my mother, in an oversweet voice, had said: 'But if my darling reads books like that at his age, what will he do when he grows up?' 'I shall live them!' This reply had met with the most complete and lasting success. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings. — Bryce Dallas Howard

Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish. — Gustavo Santaolalla

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives. — Meda Chesney-Lind

The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity. — James Hollis

The longer the wars, the younger the men who must finish them. — Billy O'Connor