Shimotsukare Quotes & Sayings

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers. — Lance Armstrong

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit. — Jonathan Heatt

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express. — Haruki Murakami

A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well. — Larry McMurtry

The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection. — Richard Hilfiger

Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat. — Hilari Bell

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them. — Brian Sutton-Smith

A Nightingale!" he marvelled. Ah, so Matron had told him that much. Lib was always shy of introducing the great lady's name into conversation and loathed the whimsical title that had come to be attached to all those Miss N. had trained, as if they were dolls cast in her heroic mould. "Yes, I had the honour of serving under her at Scutari." "Noble labour." It — Emma Donoghue

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me. — Len G. Murray

but a wise man never closes all the options. — George Shipway

We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities. — Walid Jumblatt

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister. — Dirk Nowitzki

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. — Denis Waitley