Motohashi Weebly Quotes & Sayings

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes he remembered how he had heard that soldiers in war when entrenched under the enemy's fire, if they have nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the more easily to bear the danger. To Pierre all men seemed like those soldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in politics, some in sport, some in wine, and some in governmental affairs. "Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it's all the same - only to save oneself from it as best one can," thought Pierre. "Only not to see it, that dreadful it! — Leo Tolstoy

Maintain a persistent focus of what you want — Lailah Gifty Akita

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better. — Rob Pike

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic. — Wallace Stegner

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss! — Winston Churchill

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement. — Jimmy Carter

use questions to raise questions, — Os Guinness

All I knew about shot putting was that my brother could do 44 feet ... I decided I wanted to beat him ... So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet. — Bruce Bennett

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions. — Rebecca West