Hiradaira Chisaki Quotes

#1. I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No ... but I served in a company of heroes.'

Richard Winters

#2. She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.

Christopher Poindexter

#3. The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Quentin Crisp

#4. It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

J. Maarten Troost

#5. I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

Mickalene Thomas

#6. Never give up hope, and look for the rainbows and happiness!

Nonna Bannister

#7. Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him

Cormac McCarthy

#8. There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

Aubrey De Grey

#9. O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
And all the good embrace, who know the grave
A short dark passage to eternal light.

William Davenant

#10. Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

Ian Fleming

#11. Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing ... There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

#13. He had no affection left in his life - only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie of vice.

Upton Sinclair

#14. The sorrow was no less in reality, but it became less oppressive from having some one in precisely the same relation to it as that in which she stood.

Elizabeth Gaskell