Shirotae Hydrangea Quotes & Sayings

Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
(Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day) — Delmore Schwartz

From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia — Paulo Freire

No one should marvel at the ease with which Alexander [the Great] kept possession of Asia, or at the difficulties which others, like Pyrrhus and many more, had in preserving their conquests. The difference does not arise from the greater or lesser ability of the conqueror, but from dissimilarities in the conquered lands. — Niccolo Machiavelli

STOP letting people get to you. They can only pull the trigger ... if you hand them the gun. — Timothy Pina

I have an idea and a first line
and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I'm going to say, or where it's going. I have some idea of how long it's going to be
but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That's the intrigue of doing it
it's a process of discovery. You get to discover what you're going to say and what it's going to mean. — T.C. Boyle

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen. — George Orwell

Evil requires the sanction of the victim. — Ayn Rand

Not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life. — Freya Stark

When we're in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching though a lens. — Jennifer Niven

As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family — Miguel Syjuco

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries

There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God give milk
and I have the pail. — Anne Sexton