Sumikawa Lihue Quotes & Sayings

My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes. — Augusten Burroughs

Your net worth to the
world is usually determined by what
remains after your bad habits are
subtracted from your good ones — Benjamin Franklin

It was too late for Honor, who had managed to introduce her forehead to the wooden support beam that had risen in front of her. — Cat Amesbury

One of my cousins is named Lucifer. I once asked my aunt why and she said, Because I wanted him to be beautiful and to think for himself. — Ilona Andrews

It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds. You are not obliged to assault people with discourses that are out of their road, when you see that their received notions must prevent your making an impression upon them: you ought rather to cast about and to manage things with all the dexterity in your power, so that, if you are not able to make them go well, they may be as little ill as possible; for, except all men were good, everything cannot be right, and that is a blessing that I do not at present hope to see. — Thomas More

There are only two places to get robbed: TV and the real world. On television you get your stuff back. In the real world, if you're lucky, the policeman who responds to your call will wonder what kind of computer it was. Don't let this get your hopes up. Chances are he's asking only because he has a software question. — David Sedaris

You're more important to me than anything or anyone ... I want to wake up every morning with you next to me. I need you in my life more than I have ever needed or wanted anything. — J.A. Redmerski

I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries. — M.J. Rose

Grandparents ... can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history ... — Jim Conway

Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don't seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there's a bridge now. — Terry Pratchett

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55. — Kapil Dev

[The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Be for something and against nothing. — Michael Beckwith

Time Can Not Cure Heart's Wounds Never,But Wounds Spoil and Kill Heart On The Time — Mohammed Zaki Ansari