Takimoto Hifumi Quotes & Sayings

There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time. — David E. Wilkins

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go! — Lynne Ewing

-Hardly knowing what i was doing, i began to hit the table with one hand as i sang in a low voice. Big cows" -thump- "lumps of meat" -thump. His widened. "Give me milk" -thump- "warm and sweet."
I stopped abruptly, pressing my lips together as I realized what I had just sung. The ridiculousness of it struck me forcibly and I knew I could not goon without laughing. We stared at each other,locked in a stalemate, his eyes brimming with laughter, his lips trembling. My chin quivered. Against my will, a sound burst from me. It was a very unladylike snort.- — Julianne Donaldson

It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious. — Rei Kawakubo

Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others. — Margaret Atwood

She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political
for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara) — Bell Hooks

I'd like to apologize in advance for anything I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go nuts! — Jack O'Neill

He was white in bold seas, ans black in continents... — Enid Bagnold

It only hurts when I'm not laughing. — Jackie Chan

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to. — Edwin Starr