Miyazawa Sae Quotes & Sayings

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society. — Alan Dershowitz

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The truth is that our enjoyments and our evaluations, like our trades, are learned; intensive knowledge, as well as extensive, is acquired. We learn how to value possessions as well as how to make them; our passions, our disgusts, and our ambitions are learned. Just as we have evolved ways of transmuting physical elements from one to another, so we have evolved ways of transmuting experience into meaning. — Denham Sutcliffe

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true. — Dorothy Parker

I loved county fairs in the South. It was hard to believe that anything could be so consistently cheap and showy and vulgar year after year. each year I thought that at least one class act would force its way into a booth or sideshow, but I was always mistaken. The lure of the fair was the perfect harmony of its joyous decadence, its burned-out dishonored vulgarity, its riot of colors and smells, its jangling, tawdry music, and its wicked glimpse into the outlaw life of hucksters, tattoo parlors, monstrous freaks, and strippers. — Pat Conroy

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac. — James Longstreet

A while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, — Lewis Carroll

I would rather be kind and simple and poor than rude and rich. — Debasish Mridha

Listen - when you're on the toilet, from the point of view of the toilet, you are not an icon taking a crap. You are a bottom taking a crap. If you can get that, you're going to be okay. — Tori Amos

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli. — Nikola Tesla

Quickness is the essence of the war. — Sun Tzu

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue. — John Of The Cross

I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful. — Laini Taylor

This place is nuts!" Conner said. — Chris Colfer

Trumbo was that, certainly: a prodigy of the will. He hung in there - survived, prevailed, even triumphed on a couple of occasions. Ultimately, that is why he is worth our attention. — Bruce Cook