Sugamo Station Quotes & Sayings

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. — George Bernard Shaw

Try to be one of the people," said Henry James, "on whom nothing is lost." As a writer I considered myself observant, but how much was lost on me! Birds may be everywhere, but they also - lucky for them - inhabit an alternate universe, invisible to most of us until we learn to look in a new way. And even after I had been shown them, aspects kept eluding me. — Jonathan Rosen

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another - if we seek it. — Billy Graham

The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift a human being could offer others. - AYN RAND — Robin S. Sharma

Do you know what 'Sputnik' means in Russian? 'Travelling companion'. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence if you think about it. I wonder why the Russians gave their satellite that strange name. It's just a poor little lump of metal, spinning around the Earth. — Haruki Murakami

A wise person makes one error,
and learns ten lessons.
He makes two errors,
and learns twenty lessons.
He makes three errors,
and learns thirty lessons.
He makes few errors,
and learns countless lessons. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something. — Idries Shah

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. — James Madison