Wind Up Bird Chronicle May Kasahara Quotes & Sayings

teachers are no accident! You study to become a teacher! You work at it for years. So I cannot, and will not forgive teachers who are abusive, mean, and torture kids with commas and periods and misspelling, making them feel like they are less than human because they don't or can't seem to get it right. — Victor Villasenor

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. — Haruki Murakami

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage. — Bernie Sanders

Soon I will return to the office, to shuffle paper, delete emails and avoid the Typing Dead. — Fennel Hudson

The girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a
trembling voice: It's the ghost! — Gaston Leroux

Laugh as much as possible. Because this makes your life better! — Deyth Banger

And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain. — Alain De Botton

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. — John Pilger

It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it. — Peter Straub

I'm a working-class person, working with class. — Karl Lagerfeld

A man can learn wisdom even from a foe — Aristophanes

Digital organizations today have to strike the right balance of being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to make a leap. — Pearl Zhu

Nonetheless, as Katharine knew, they were having a splendid time, especially because of their work, but also in good measure because of the "Kitty Hawkers," whose consistent friendliness and desire to be of help, whose stories and ways of looking at life and expressing their opinions, made an enormous difference. The brothers were now hearing, as they had not before, words like "disremember" for "forget" and such expressions as "I'll not be seeing you tomorrow," or smooth water described being "slick calm." "Hoi toide" was "high tide. — David McCullough

We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi