Miyauchi Haruka Quotes & Sayings

collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls "divertissement," an untranslatable word which roughly means "distraction" or "diversion": It is the escape from life's problems, and also its invitations, into activities that in ultimate terms are meaningless. It is a constant turning to superficial actions as a way to avoid facing the true realities of human life. The soap operas and situation comedies easily become an addiction. They take the place of the "bread and circuses" of ancient Rome. There was plenty wrong with Roman society and the Roman emperors offered the diversion of food and entertainment to make people forget the banality and meaninglessness of the lives they lived. Our society does much the same and has ever so much more in the way of sophisticated tools for doing so. — William H. Shannon

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. — Jane Austen

The way to succeed is to double your error rate. — Thomas J. Watson

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana. — Jack Osbourne

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest. — June Jordan

Can I look at my feet now?" "No. A bird never looks at its wings while it's flying. If it did, it would realize it's doing something utterly impossible, and fall to the ground. — Suzanne Enoch

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way. — Suzy Parker

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age ... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly. — Tracy Letts

You can love her as no one else can, and love covers a multitude of sins. Love gives hope and hope leads to belief and belief leads to action. — Quinn Loftis

Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me? — Philip Yancey

Whatever made her happy made me happy - except the time she thought divorcing me would make her life happier. That didn't do much for me. — Michael Connelly

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened. — Donald Driver