Ryozo Nakamura Quotes & Sayings

It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill. — Neil Gaiman

I don't need to be given orders, thank you. I've done just fine on my own without having a man lording over me. — Ella Dominguez

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius

We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him. — J.C. Ryle

Riding, she often thought, was not for those afraid to get a little dirt. — Annie Wedekind

Danger is a chain ... passed from one wounded child to the next. We must stop the danger by breaking the chain. We must learn how to stay safe and be kind. — Margarita Engle

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything. — Edmund Burke

A woman's hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: See this is what I am like-or this is what I would like to be. — Lilly Dache

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time. — Tom Baker

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood. — Mark Noble

I loved you and you didn't know. I loved you and that was enough. — Rachel Joyce