Sugiyama San And Lean Quotes & Sayings

I'm not making you hate me. I'm making you love me. — Michelle Hodkin

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire

Fat people already are ashamed. It's taken care of. No further manpower needed on the shame front, thx. I am not concerned with whether or not fat people can change their bodies through self-discipline and "choices." Pretty much all of them have tried already. A couple of them have succeeded. Whatever. My question is, what if they try and try and try and still fail? What if they are still fat? What if they are fat forever? What do you do with them then? Do you really want millions of teenage girls to feel like they're trapped in unsightly lard prisons that are ruining their lives, and on top of that it's because of their own moral failure, and on top of that they are ruining America with the terribly expensive diabetes that they don't even have yet? You know what's shameful? A complete lack of empathy. — Lindy West

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. — Yoshihiko Noda

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy. — Hollis Stacy

The Buddha's last words instructed us to be heedful - to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times. — Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can't imagine why ... — Mercedes Lackey

I'm trying to compliment you," Barclay say. "Can't you just say thanks? — Elizabeth Norris

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. — Anton Chekhov

When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me. — Cheryl Strayed