Michinori Hirai Quotes & Sayings

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. — Cyril Smith

Mona ... lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too. — Armistead Maupin

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away. — Viggo Mortensen

My father, Zeus, did not love me. The demigods at Camp Half-Blood did not love me. Python and the Beast and his comrades at Triumvirate Holdings did not love me. It was almost enough to make me question my self-worth.
No, no. That was crazy talk. — Rick Riordan

That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular. — Peter Hook

I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it. — Michael Lehmann

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now. — Eckhart Tolle

We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice. — Otto Frank

(1) the commitment to ending the war successfully at the earliest possible moment; (2) the need to justify the effort and expense of building the atomic bombs; (3) the hope of achieving diplomatic gains in the growing rivalry with the Soviet Union; (4) the lack of incentives not to use atomic weapons; and (5) hatred of the Japanese and a desire for vengeance. — J. Samuel Walker

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. — David Letterman

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. — Socrates

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death. — Lady Gregory

Taste has no system and no proofs. — Susan Sontag

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication. — Evel Knievel

The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions - even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do. — Timothy Snyder