Yamagishi Kaede Quotes & Sayings

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible ... So we will do them anyway. — William Wilberforce

The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women. Differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class. All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex. — Karl Marx

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable. — Malcolm Muggeridge

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny. — Donald Freed

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost — Jhumpa Lahiri