Nosei Shomeisho Quotes & Sayings

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery. — Laini Taylor

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission. — Sally Ride

He was a man too busy to flush toilets. — Mona Simpson

Changing things in education involves hard work, determination and an ability to swim against the tide. — Adele Devine

The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson

God help me, what I wanted to do was to sweep her into my arms and clasp her to my manly bosom and pour words of soft comfort and consolation into her shell-like ear, as any red-blooded male would do. — Rosy Thornton

It was sad, tragic - and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable. — L.M. Montgomery

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don't look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome. — Lolo Jones

Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan. — Peter Watts

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive. — Joyce Carol Oates

If you were my girl and I proposed to you, nothing would keep me from you. I'd follow you, and I would take you back. Nothing. — Tijan

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think? — Christiane Collange

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all. — Dalton Trumbo