Usami Akihiko Love Quotes & Sayings

Do you ever wonder why a battered wife stays with her husband? Why people continue to spend money they don't have even though they know they are deeply in debt? Why some keep jamming food in their mouths when they're already overweight? Why do people stay in bad relationships? Why are some people still racist? Why do people still drink and drive? You'd think the response to all these things would be obvious and cause them to scream, "Duh, of course I need to change this." Why do we keep doing church the same way even when we know it's in critical decline? Why do paid church leaders spend so much time preparing for a 90-minute service for Christians who have heard it all before? Why do we still call our message the good news when it clearly seems to be bad news or no news to Sojourners? Why do we think Pharisees are only found in the Bible? Why is returning to a simpler form of ancient church so hard to grasp? — Hugh Halter

I love being outdoors and try to work out outside when I can. I spent most of my childhood outdoors. — Miranda Kerr

I was always a closet blues player. — Tito Jackson

Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in a bad mood. — Marcel Proust

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it. — Oliver Goldsmith

choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Constantin's — Sylvia Plath

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. — Sylvester Stallone

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval. — Coco Chanel

Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make,
it's measured by the size of the problem you solve. — Joe Jordan