Okutani Chihiro Quotes & Sayings

Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it ... What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning ... Does our being alive matter? — Harold S. Kushner

I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society. — Nelson Mandela

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human. — Rainn Wilson

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds. — Franklin Knight Lane

Home is the normal
whatever place you happen to start from and return to without having to answer questions. It's a metaphor that may seem to fit reduced expectations. We no longer seek towers that would reach to the heavens; we've abandoned attempts to prove that we live in a chain of being whose every link bears witness to the glory of God. We merely seek assurance that we find ourselves in a place where we know our way about. — Susan Neiman

The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail. — Cory Doctorow

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do. — Kurt Vonnegut

The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941. — Richard Rhodes

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician. — Jeff Tweedy

Looking at the great values of the feminine principle - relatedness, presence, an open heart, warmth, patience, and trust - I — Massimilla Harris

It is better to win over your enemy than to conquer him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503) — William Shakespeare

I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys. — Bernard Goldberg

He dispensed starlight to casual moths. — F Scott Fitzgerald