Yanase Japan Quotes & Sayings

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don't write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by. — Leon Nacson

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast. — J. Michael Straczynski

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true. — Marcus Aurelius

You're not weird in the head.' 'There's a giant talking chicken next to me that would say otherwise. — Maureen Johnson

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Staying in that house alone didn't appeal to me - some ghost hunter I was. Nothing had happened, and I was already jumpy. — Patricia Briggs

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door. — John Ortberg

Take the hand you're dealt and then finesse it, — Eric Van Lustbader

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. — James K. Glassman

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it. — R.K. Narayan

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don't just wait for a man to come along. That's the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself. — Albert Camus

I'm a much better mother at 46 ... than if I were like, 21 or 25. — Halle Berry

His eyes caught mine in the moonlight. "Babe, I was pissed at you but lookin' back at it, not pissed and havin' seen that look now more than once, you walked into that room lookin' turned way the fuck on."

Oh dear.

"I was," I whispered.

"So you came in there to get yourself some."

Did I?

Oh God.

I did. — Kristen Ashley

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic
and took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.
But the thing was, you kept going. You kept your friends and your
family and your mate as safe as you were able. And you kept fighting even
after you were knocked down. — J.R. Ward

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that. — Rooney Mara