Tsurara Quotes & Sayings

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. — John G. D. Clark

Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism, cover up coating a zit, because it was too embarrassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting you hadn't completely given up. — Jodi Picoult

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that. — Judith Viorst

The Ego ages ... the Soul evolves ... and to the Awareness, nothing happened! — Ram Dass

No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured. — Charles B. Rangel

I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct. — Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. — Spike Jonze

Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do. — Rosario Dawson

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body,
That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct,
Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man;
And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body,
Love is usually born suddenly and violently. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Pleasure is a difficult taskmaster, ' Trenton observed thoughtfully, 'and one that people do not mind submitting to. Most don't even realize that it is their master. Once they are enslaved to pleasure, it deceives them into believing that they control their own lives. — Erika Mathews

We feel led to caution ... against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them heavier than they can bear, and lead to the loss of their homes and other possessions. We know it is the fashion of the age to use credit to the utmost limit ... We, therefore, repeat our counsel ... to shun debt. Be content with moderate gains, and be not misled by illusory hopes of acquiring wealth ... Let our children also be taught habits of economy, and not to indulge in tastes which they cannot gratify without running into debt. — Wilford Woodruff

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows — Barbara Kingsolver

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth. — David Stockman

The attackers had used one of the oldest and most potent weapons of warfare: surprise. — Mitchell Zuckoff