Toshiharu Yoda Quotes & Sayings

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect. — James Luceno

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand. — Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken. — Nicola Sturgeon

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith. — Rosemary M. Wixom

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still. — William Shakespeare

What you want to be defines what you become. — Ron Kaufman

Not slaves," said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. "Citizens, employed by government. They have same rights as other citizens - free speech, freedom of worship, the right to vote. Before the war, they worked in the Ilium Works, controlling machines, but now machines control themselves much better. — Anonymous

Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain. — William Butler Yeats

It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom. — N. T. Wright