Paysages Japonais Quotes & Sayings

An unconsidered life is not one worth living. — Socrates

As the family sat in the drawing room after their nuncheon, — Mary Robinette Kowal

He (Brett) handed her the drink over her shoulder. She looked up and smiled, saying thanks. The table was covered with notepads and pens. And when he sat down across from her, she reached in her bag and brought out a pair of glasses.
His body froze, hand clutched around his drink. Naughty librarian daydream come to life.
Oh, good Christ. — Jeanette Murray

When an apple ripens and falls - what makes it fall? Is it that it is attracted to the ground, is it that the stem withers, is it that the sun has dried it up, that it has grown heavier, that the wind shakes it, that the boy standing underneath wants to eat it? No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished. And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue degenerates, and so on, will be as right and as wrong as the child who stands underneath and says that the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it. — Leo Tolstoy

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary. — Barbra Streisand

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. — William Goldman

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. — Al Gore

Rosie Germaine Mole. — Sue Townsend

The insides of my brain are a fading photograph, stories and images drifting away to places unknown. Leaving patches of nothingness where a name or an event or a location should be. Anyone — Shonda Rhimes

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors. — Placido Domingo

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate. — Vanna Bonta

Next week John Boehner will be sitting behind Barack Obama at the State of the Union address. I think Obama should purposely try to embarrass him by telling the story of 'Old Yeller.' The state of our Union is strong, but not so good for one special dog.' — Bill Maher

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda. — Martin McGuinness

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag
they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it. — Bill Maher

A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography. — Alfred Austin