Hiranaka David Quotes

#1. Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Anne Carson

#3. Better poverty without care, than riches with.

Aesop

#4. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hanna Arendt

#5. Your smile will invite people to the positive world. Keep smiling is worth it.

Euginia Herlihy

#6. The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Carl Sandburg

#7. Then said another -- "Surely not in vain
My Substance from the common Earth was ta'en,
That He who subtly wrought me into Shape
Should stamp me back to common Earth again.

Omar Khayyam

#8. Engineering is not quite as important as imagination

Satoru Iwata

#9. Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Theodor Herzl

#10. Ah, well." He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration.
With a nod and a respectful, "Ma'am," he left her in the middle of the room.
Feeling like she'd been hit by a tank.

Cindy Gerard

#11. It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher