Shirakawa Village Quotes & Sayings

When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern. — Adrianne Marcus

Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the value of succeeding at school, the value of merit and respect for work. To me these are not incompatible with being of the left. — Segolene Royal

Eve was absent because she would be formed inside Man, and Lilly was here to witness their birth. — William Paul Young

In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.' — Hiram Maxim

'Two things.'
'Name them. I am instructing you to name them.'
'I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword. That's the first thing.' Yeats didn't react. If anything, he seemed baffled. 'The second thing is I wouldn't characterize Harry as indecisive and untrained with weapons.' — Max Barry

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel. — Nelson Rodrigues

Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. — C. B. Van Niel

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. — Margaret Haddix

now, I still didn't have enough money to pay for all the repairs, and I had set out to fix the door on my own. I hadn't framed it very well, but I try to think positive: The new door was arguably even more secure than the old one - now you could barely get the damned thing open even when it wasn't locked. — Jim Butcher

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak. — Betsy Lerner