Toshiya Kawano Quotes & Sayings

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile. — Ezra Taft Benson

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves. — Yotam Ottolenghi

If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade, somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver. — Herbert Fingarette

The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.
Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim. — Blaise Pascal

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today. — James Allen

I flip him off. He mimes catching and pocketing it. "Thanks. I needed a fuck you for later. — Krista Ritchie

I see her now."
I stop and look at him. "Um, see who?"
"You. The girl I used to know. — Nyrae Dawn

The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him. — Billy Graham

Life would be easier for some people if it wasn't such a big deal — Harriet Evans

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sounds - possibly musical - heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being. — H.P. Lovecraft

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen. — George S. Patton Jr.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. — Charlie Watts

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist. — Jean-Paul Sartre