Shikibu Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Forgiveness isn't always a one-time thing. There are layers of it that need to be recognized in any situation -especially in a marriage. Sometimes we think we have forgiven, but we don't realize how many layers there are. And if we don't deal with each layer, hardness of heart can set in and build up to monumental proportions. — Stormie O'martian

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people, and it has to make sense and end in a way that is satisfying. So I spend a lot more time thinking about that. Then the writing itself usually is easier for me, because I know where it's going. — Dave Barry

We carry our families like anchors, rooting us in storms, making sure we never drift from where and who we are. We carry our families within us the way we carry our breath underwater, keeping us afloat, keeping us alive. — Erika Swyler

Thank you for the sun you brought this morning
even though the sky was full of clouds. — Rod McKuen

My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall, — Angela Merkel

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. — George Balanchine

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! — J.K. Rowling

I couldn't figure out how the system worked. And maybe that was the point. If you aren't sure how it works, it's a lot harder to game it. — Stacey Kade

The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet? — Price Pritchett

If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything. — Gertrude Stein

Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you. — Roberta Flack

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. — Winston Churchill

It took a freaking genius to put this together, Michael."
I hefted my staff.
"Fortunately," I said, and took a two-handed swing at the nearest stand of slender, delicate crystal. It shattered with gratifying ease, and the encasing light around the greater circle began to waver and dissipate. "It only takes a monkey with a big stick to take it apart. — Jim Butcher

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen.
Believing one's eyes
Is the difficulty. — Jean Monahan

You can't market yourself as a brand without defining your core values and characteristics that are distinguishable and unique to you. — Daniela Bachelder