Naruki Store Quotes & Sayings

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way. — Eliot Spitzer

Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them. — Nikki Rowe

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common. — Vestal McIntyre

By the end of the eighteenth century it had become clear that none of the estates or classes in the various countries was willing or able to become the new ruling class, that is to identify itself with the government as the nobility had done for centuries.8 The failure of the absolute monarchy to find a substitute within society led to the full development of the nation-state and its claim to be above all classes, completely independent of society and its particular interests, the true and only representative of the nation as a whole. — Hannah Arendt

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self. — Richard Rohr

Obsessions are always dangerous. — Agatha Christie

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C. — Eric Massa

Robert was good at many things. Communicating with women was not one of them. "That's not what I meant," he muttered. — Courtney Milan

Can I ask you something?" asks Will, after a while.
The man sips his whisky instead of answering.
Will asks the question anyway. "Have you ever been in love?"
The man places his glass down and stares at Will, steel-eyed. The expected reaction, "Once," he responds , the word just a croak from the back of his throat.
Will nods. "It's always just once, isn't it? The rest..they're just echoes — Matt Haig

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A bit of research can save you hours, days of time correcting mistakes that you never had to make in the first place. — John Patrick Hickey