Moonlight Shadow Banana Yoshimoto Quotes & Sayings

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop. — P.G. Wodehouse

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws. What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat

If your friend's feeling bad, it's hard to know what to do. Do you back away or try to help them? It's a really hard situation that I've been in. You want to support your friend. You want to be there. My advice is, don't get too involved with it, just be by their side. If they need your help, they'll ask for it. — Alia Shawkat

Alec decided to go first this time, stepping through the doorway and onto the landing. He reached back and pulled his flashlight out of his pack, clicked it on and shined it down the steps. Mark leaned in to see dust motes dancing in the bright beam. Alec was just putting his foot forward to start down when a voice rang out from below. "C-c-come any closer and I'll l-l-light the match." It was a man's voice, weak and shaky. Alec glanced back at Mark with a questioning look. — James Dashner

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward. — Nikki Cox

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. — Albert Camus

Isn't it funny that they say most girls have daddy issues, when really, every dude does? — Amy Schumer

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush. — Dawn French

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough. — Laozi

I think it's important for me to play well and set the tone. — Annika Sorenstam

The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers. — Anita Anand

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent. — Mitt Romney