Nanding Kapahulu Quotes & Sayings

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York. — John Steinbeck

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly. — Aleksandar Hemon

I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead. — Khloe Kardashian

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Man is a glorious and unique species of animal. The species originated by evolution.... Future evolution could raise man to superb heights as yet hardly glimpsed, but it will not automatically do so. As far as can now be foreseen, evolutionary degeneration is at least as likely in our future as is further progress.The only way to ensure a progressive evolutionary future for mankind is for man himself to take a hand in the process. Although much further knowledge is needed, it is unquestionably possible for man to guide his own evolution (within limits) along desirable lines. But the great weight of the most widespread...beliefs and institutions is against even attempting such guidance. ["Man's evolutionary future," 1960, p. 134.] — George Gaylord Simpson

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. — Jefferson Machamer

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury. — Anchee Min

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. — Publilius Syrus

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I had dreams, and they were not about ending up a speck. I didn't dream of becoming a star, but I thought I might have a small nonspeaking role in a grand epic, an epic with a touch of artistic credentials. I didn't dream of becoming a giant - I wasn't that delusional or arrogant - but I wanted to be more than a speck, maybe a midget. — Rabih Alameddine

The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups. — James Beard

The threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers — Markus Zusak