Ibuki Mioda Quotes

#1. You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

Derek Raymond

#2. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

#3. Today was good.
Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.

Dr. Seuss

#4. For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.

Shakira

#5. I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Robert South

#7. But where could I find such pleasure in you, Lord - except in you, who teaches us by sorrow, who wound us to heal us, and kill us so that we may not die apart from you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Savielly Tartakower

#9. That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God.

Ann Voskamp

#10. I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it
it, the physical act.
I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

James Baldwin

#11. Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

Mika Brzezinski

#12. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

Kahlil Gibran

#13. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

John Henrik Clarke