Shinseki Fired Quotes & Sayings

I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers. — Haruki Murakami

The strange white world lay stroked by silence. No birds sang. The garden was no longer there, in this forested land. Nor were the out-buildings nor the old crumbling walls. There lay only a narrow clearing round the house now, hummocked with unbroken snowdrifts, before the trees began, with a narrow path leading away. — Susan Cooper

Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don't. I thought, it's the light, it's the water, it's changing every second, it's always doing this whether I'm here to witness it or not. — Mary Ellen Hannibal

The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls — Friedrich Nietzsche

All failures are so because they lack social interest. — Alfred Adler

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees. — Mary Stewart

I have found that sometimes, moments get stuck in your body. They are there, lodged under your skin like hard seed-stones of wonder or sadness or fear, everything else growing up around them. And if you turn a certain way, if you fall, one of them could get free. It might dissolve in your blood, or it might spring up a whole tree. Sometimes, once one of them gets out, they all start to go. — Ava Dellaira

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments. — Annie Barrows

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em. — Benny Goodman

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes. — Henry David Thoreau

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects. — Emma Lazarus