Haikai Presentes Quotes

#1. I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
I too scoffed at lovers,
Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
No one is safe! Watch out.

Rumi

#2. Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.

Bill Watterson

#3. The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

James C. Collins

#4. I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

Hillary Clinton

#5. In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

Abraham Verghese

#6. Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like her, they mourn a loss so wide and sodeep and so all-encompassing that it threatens to wash them away with grief.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#7. Superman, spider man, batman, all lost their parents in their childhood, they all had to live their lives against the conspiracy of villains, and even after these miseries they don't hesitate to save people or to forgive the villains, that's why they are superheroes.

Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury

#8. Black hair spilling, blue eyes piercing. Enchanted by the lies that he was singing.

Sara Secora

#9. On way to get rid of weight is to leave it on the plate.

Terry O'Brien

#10. The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

James A. Garfield