Hikawa Sayo Quotes

#1. We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Simone Weil

#2. Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

Sam Altman

#3. Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.

Emmy Rossum

#4. Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

Pope Leo XIII

#5. Inner peace is the hallmark of a peaceful joyful soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

Vivek Wadhwa

#7. Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

Albert Camus

#9. Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customers' pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition - which is where we always plan to be.

Sam Walton

#10. I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.

Jeaniene Frost

#11. Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. You don't know how long I've wanted to feel worthy of that. To like myself. To be able to live with what I am."
"You don't have to live with yourself anymore. You live with me. Let me love you enough for both of us.

Pepper Winters

#13. Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

C. Everett Koop

#14. Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin

Lorrie Moore