Yamaguchi Momoe Quotes & Sayings

Losing him would, she realised, be unlike anything she had ever experienced before. A marriage is a conspiracy, a shared aspect toward the rest of the society, a code devised over a long history of negotiation and habit. That code would vanish. Her thoughts would be unobserved, her memories would be hers alone, without the heft that comes from sharing them with another. She would become insubstantial to herself. — Matthew De Abaitua

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that. — Tiger Woods

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses. — Gustavo Dudamel

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does. — Martha Beck

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life. — Ayelet Waldman

Then you'll feel your cheek scratched ...
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck ...
And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot ... — Arthur Rimbaud

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others. — Richard P. Denney

Standing Post One that day was the scariest thing I've ever done. The one thing that got me through it was that I knew I was a Marine and, because of that, I knew I could do it. — Greg Matos

Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

My commitment is to urge us all toward moderation and good will toward fellow citizens. If we can set aside unworthy emotions that deepen our political divide, concentrate on finding solutions to the problems our country and communities face, we can then work toward a brighter future with less rancor but firm in our purpose.
Or, we can feed our primitive fight or flight impulse by lashing out in social media and then duck into our silos. If we do that, the unhealthy polarization of the time of Trump will get even worse. — Jeff Rasley