Zachara Ny Quotes & Sayings

From the girl who sat before me now ... surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move. — Haruki Murakami

Why, you know, I said, that the eyes, when a person directs them towards objects on which the light of day is no longer shining, but the moon and stars only, see dimly, and are nearly blind; they seem to have no clearness of vision in them? Very true. But when they are directed towards objects on which the sun shines, they see clearly and there is sight in them? Certainly. And the soul is like the eye: when resting upon that on which truth and being shine, the soul perceives and understands, and is radiant with intelligence; but when turned towards the twilight of becoming and perishing, then she has opinion only, and goes blinking about, and is first of one opinion and then of another, and seems to have no intelligence? Just so. — Plato

We [European countries] probably need to move forward together, each at their own speed. The faster ones, that could be the countries in the euro zone. The others would be those who are interested in the continued development of the common market, but reject the idea of an ever stronger political integration. — Paolo Gentiloni

How we treat those who can't force us to be kind says everything about who we are as a people. — Connie Schultz

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — W. H. Auden

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. — Vivienne Westwood

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within. — Prem Rawat

Some people you only like a little, some you only like on certain occasions, and some you only like when you're drunk. But I liked her all ways and all the time. — Sylvia Day

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home. — Masaharu Morimoto

After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure. — George Horace Lorimer