Snowfields Of Japan Quotes & Sayings

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries. — Jean Kerr

His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart. His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination. But even human sympathies were not sufficient to satisfy his eager mind. The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour[...] — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Yeah, Chase. I have a cow under my bed. It's invisible, though, so you can't see it. But sometimes at night it comes out to play. What the hell is wrong with your brain? — Rachel Van Dyken

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart. — Dolly Parton

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. — Jonathan Sacks

It's easy to be a Jesus freak in the noise, but can we be Jesus freaks in the silence? — Alisa Hope Wagner

I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper. — Fiona Apple

Tired soldiers made mistakes. Learn to sleep when it was time to sleep, no matter how chaotic things were, trusting it would be better the following day. — Nicholas Sparks

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. — Molly Ivins

The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (First, do no harm), sounds better than it is. In fact, it fails to tell us precisely what we need to know: What is harm and what is help?
However, two things about the challenge of helping the helpless are clear. One is that, like beauty and ugliness, help and harm often lie in the eyes of the beholder
in our case, in the often divergently directed eyes of the benefactor and his beneficiary. The other is that harming people in the name of helping them is one of mankind's favorite pastimes. — Thomas Szasz