Yasuhito Takeda Quotes & Sayings

You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at you sidelong, with a look that is both piercing and intimate, and if you let them sit beside you, they will tell you long lies about numerous children who are all gone now, and mothers who were beautiful and cruel, and in every case they will tell you that they were abandoned, disappointed, or betrayed--that they should not be alone, that only remarkable events, of the kind one reads in a book, could have made their condition so extreme. And that is why, even if the things they say are true, they have the quick eyes and active hands and the passion for meticulous elaboration of people who know they are lying. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever been otherwise. Loneliness is absolute discovery. — Marilynne Robinson

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth . — Epicurus

Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch. — Andy Rooney

We are made for this moment, and we will seize it-so long as we seize it together. — Barack Obama

I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans. — Orrin Hatch

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything. — Ralph Waldo Emerson