Waseda Library Quotes & Sayings

My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It's how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference. — Nikki Haley

The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by
their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to
have been cared for. According to Evelyn, "the wise Solomon prescribed
ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman praetors have
decided how often you may go into your neighbor's land to gather the
acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that
neighbor." Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our
nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor
longer. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have
exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. But man's
capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can
do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy
failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to
thee what thou hast left undone? — Henry David Thoreau

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. — Thomas B. Macaulay

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety. — Byron Dorgan

The only thing you need to be certain of is that you can be whatever you want yourself to be and this does not need to be defined by who you were. — Brenda J. Bentley

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air. — Catullus

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy. — Phil Cooke

I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter. — Neil Diamond

Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. — Robert Jordan

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius. — Sam Kean

We were full of experiments and reforms, we were going to do without table napkins. Everything was going to be new, everything was going to be different. Everything was on trial. — Virginia Woolf

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning. — Errol Morris

I gotta say, I was really feeling the robe, but there's something about a girl in cartoon pajamas that does it for me. — Stacey O'Neale

I wanted to have all the songs to be the strongest they could be and all the choruses to be catchy. One of those records you could put in your car and just drive and not have to change it. — Orianthi