Meina Shirakawa Quotes & Sayings

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an 'Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign,' just 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. — Mitch Hedberg

I mean, it was hard on them. They were turning their backs on everything they'd ever known, because they'd decided there was something that mattered more than doing what they'd been taught to do. Hell, what they'd been raised to do. This wasn't a choice they made on a whim. This was everything to them. — Seanan McGuire

I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up. — Pauline Trigere

If we construct an economy where quantities are controlled, based on the belief there is never enough for all, then we must compete to determine the winners. We begin this with grades in the first grade. There is the presumption that competition is essential and so there must be a normal distribution of grades. All students cannot receive high marks. If I get an A, someone in the class must perform poorly. It is an early lesson in how the marketplace ideology works. In a community organized around abundance, competition will occur, but it is not built into the system as a core design element. In a neighborly culture, the abundance of resources becomes the design element — Walter Brueggemann

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be. — Margaret Atwood

In a sense, matters of the heart are mostly subjective and unconscious, and that's not bad. Soul connections should not always be made on a rational basis. What a boring life that would be! The unconscious part of ourselves has a wisdom of its own, and in some ways our heart knows what it wants and needs. That is valid. But God has made us with two sides of our being, the rational and the emotional; when they are in conflict, we are in trouble. — Henry Cloud

You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
What's your heart telling you to do?"
I don't know."
Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it. — Nicholas Sparks

Genius always finds itself a century too early. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee. — Jason Sudeikis