Mirai Nagasu Quotes & Sayings

Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story. — David McCullough

I am a thousand scattered pieces that no one has bothered to put together. — Jennifer Coburn

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness. — Dalai Lama

We were created for something higher than ourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

... for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown — Herman Melville

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization. — Nicholas Murray Butler

When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community. — William J. Clinton

Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car. — Donald Ray Pollock

The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike. — Dave Beard

Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know ... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?"
"What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while. — Margaret Deland

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. — Jim Carrey