Shimokawa Mikuni Quotes & Sayings

We are at the tail end of a decline in infant mortality that began just over a century ago. Babies no longer wander into open hearths or are mauled by marauding pigs. We have vaccines, lead-free educational toys, diapers that can sop up a typhoon. But we have never been more worried. — Nicholas Day

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest. — Ayn Rand

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war. — Arthur Keith

She poked him in the center of his chest with two fingers to punctuate her words.
"You are an unfeeling" - poke - "traitorous" - poke - "mistrusting" - poke - "rude" - poke - "booby!"
Every poke turned him mortal, but Lord Maccon didn't seem to mind it in the least. Instead he grabbed the hand that poked him and brought it to his lips. "You put it very well, my love. — Gail Carriger

Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds. — Stefan Zweig

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run — Andrew Marvell

You can feel sweetness of heart even if you're not an expert. — Debasish Mridha

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be. — Ovid

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge. — Alexandra David-Neel

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it. — George Soros

Tracked the kits' trail and it met another. The heather was drenched with Tom's scent. Turtle Tail recognized it at once. — Erin Hunter

We have now all sorts of good reasons for accepting life, quite as good as those that had made us reject it the previous week. — George Sand

But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise ... I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme. — Aimee Bender